023:035 he said, "I will hear all you have to say, when your accusers also have come." And he ordered him to be detained in custody in Herod's Palace. 024:001 Five days after this, Ananias the High Priest came down to Caesarea with a number of Elders and a pleader called Tertullus. They stated to the Governor the case against Paul. 024:002 So Paul was sent for, and Tertullus began to impeach him as follows: "Indebted as we are," he said, "to you, most noble Felix, for the perfect peace which we enjoy, and for reforms which your wisdom has introduced to this nation, 024:003 in every instance and in every place we accept them with profound gratitude. 024:004 But--not to detain you too long--I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us. 024:005 For we have found this man Paul a source of mischief and a disturber of the peace among all the Jews throughout the Empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes. 024:006 He even attempted to profane the Temple, but we arrested him. 024:007 [] 024:008 You, however, by examining him, will yourself be able to learn the truth as to all this which we allege against him." 024:009 The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were facts. 024:010 Then, at a sign from the Governor, Paul answered, "Knowing, Sir, that for many years you have administered justice to this nation, I cheerfully make my defence. 024:011 For you have it in your power to ascertain that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship in Jerusalem; 024:012 and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me. 024:013 Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me. 024:014 But this I confess to you--that in the way which they style a heresy, I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets, 024:015 and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers themselves also entertain, that before long there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous. 024:016 This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man. 024:017 "Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices. 024:018 While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia. 024:019 They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.