Acts 24:6
“Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.”
Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Related Verses
“For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.”
“While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cesar, have I offended any thing at all.”
“Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.”
“About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.”
“And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:”