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Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
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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:
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Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
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But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
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And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.