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they came to the chiefe Priestes and Elders, and sent him straightway to thee, and commanded
said, We haue bound our selues with a solemne his accusers to speake before thee the thinges
curse, that wee will eate nothing, vntill we haue that they had against him. Farewell. 31 Then
slaine Paul. 15 Nowe therefore, ye and the Council the souldiers as it was commanded them, tooke
signifie to the chiefe captaine, that hee bring Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
him foorth vnto you to morow: as though you 32 And the next day, they left the horsemen to goe
would know some thing more perfectly of him, with him, and returned vnto the Castel. 33 Now
and we, or euer he come neere, will be readie to when they came to Cæsarea, they deliuered the
kill him. 16 But when Pauls sisters sonne heard epistle to the Gouernour, and presented Paul also
of their laying awaite, he went, and entred into vnto him. 34 So when the Gouernour had read it,
the castel, and tolde Paul. 17 And Paul called one hee asked of what prouince he was: and when
of the Centurions vnto him, and said, Take this he vnderstoode that he was of Cilicia, 35 I will
yong man hence vnto the chiefe captaine: for heare thee, said he, when thine accusers also are
he hath a certaine thing to shewe him. 18 So come, and commanded him to bee kept in Herods
hee tooke him, and brought him to the chiefe iudgement hall.
captaine, and saide, Paul the prisoner called mee
vnto him, and prayed mee to bring this yong 24
man vnto thee, which hath some thing to say 1 Now after fiue dayes, Ananias the hie Priest
vnto thee. 19 Then the chiefe captaine tooke him came downe with the Elders, and with Tertul-
by the hande, and went apart with him alone, lus a certaine oratour, which appeared before
and asked him, What hast thou to shewe me? the Gouernour against Paul. 2 And when he
20 And he saide, The Iewes haue conspired to was called foorth, Tertullus began to accuse
desire thee, that thou wouldest bring foorth Paul him, saying, Seeing that we haue obtained great
to morow into the Council, as though they would quietnesse through thee, and that many worthy
inquire somewhat of him more perfectly: 21 But things are done vnto this nation through thy
let them not perswade thee: for there lie in prouidence, We acknowledge it wholy, and in
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waite for him of them, more then fourtie men, all places most noble Felix, with all thankes, But
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which haue bound themselues with a curse, that
they will neither eate nor drinke, till they haue that I be not tedious vnto thee, I pray thee,
killed him: and nowe are they readie, and waite that thou wouldest heare vs of thy courtesie
for thy promise. 22 The chiefe captaine then a fewe wordes. 5 Certainely we haue found
let the yong man depart, after hee had charged this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of
him to vtter it to no man, that he had shewed sedition among all the Iewes throughout the
him these things. 23 And he called vnto him world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the
two certaine Centurions, saying, Make readie two Nazarites: 6 And hath gone about to pollute the
hundred souldiers, that they may go to Cæsarea, Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde
and horsemen three score and ten, and two haue iudged him according to our Lawe: 7 But
hundred with dartes, at the thirde houre of the the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and
night. 24 And let them make readie an horse, with great violence tooke him out of our handes,
that Paul being set on, may be brought safe vnto 8 Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of
Felix the Gouernour. 25 And he wrote an epistle whom thou mayest (if thou wilt inquire) know
in this maner: 26 Claudius Lysias vnto the most all these things whereof we accuse him. 9 And
noble Gouernour Felix sendeth greeting. 27 As the Iewes likewise affirmed, saying that it was
this man was taken of the Iewes, and shoulde so. 10 Then Paul, after that the gouernour had
haue bene killed of them, I came vpon them with beckened vnto him that hee shoulde speake,
the garison, and rescued him, perceiuing that answered, I do the more gladly answere for my
he was a Romane. 28 And when I would haue selfe, for as much as I knowe that thou hast
knowen the cause, wherefore they accused him, bene of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation,
I brought him forth into their Council. 29 There I 11 Seeing that thou mayest knowe, that there
perceiued that hee was accused of questions of are but twelue dayes since I came vp to worship
their Lawe, but had no crime worthy of death, in Hierusalem. 12 And they neither found mee
or of bondes. 30 And when it was shewed me, in the Temple disputing with any man, neither
how that the Iewes layd waite for the man, I making vproare among the people, neither in the