Acts 24 (NKJV)

Acts 24 NO HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
24:1 Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain orator named Tertullus. These gave evidence to the governor against Paul.
24:2 through you we enjoy great peace, and prosperity is being brought to this nation by your foresight,
24:3 ''we accept it always and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
24:4 ''Nevertheless, not to be tedious to you any further, I beg you to hear, by your courtesy, a few words from us.
24:5 ''For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
24:6 ''He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted to judge him according to our law.
24:7 ''But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,
24:8 ''commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.''
24:9 And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
24:10 Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: ''Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,
24:11 ''because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
24:12 ''And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
24:13 ''Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
24:14 ''But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
24:15 ''I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
24:16 ''This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
24:17 ''Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
24:18 ''in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.
24:19 ''They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.
24:20 ''Or else let those who are here themselves say if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,
24:21 ''unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day'.''
24:22 But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, ''When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.''
24:23 So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and told him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.
24:24 And after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
24:25 Now as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was afraid and answered, ''Go away for now; when I have a convenient time I will call for you.''
24:26 Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore he sent for him more often and conversed with him.
24:27 But after two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.