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## Acts 24:7 in Context (Verses 4–10 KJV)
 
 [4 ](/kjv/acts/24/4) Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/acts/24/5) 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:
 
 [6 ](/kjv/acts/24/6) Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/acts/24/7) But the chief captain Lysias came *upon us*, and with great violence took *him* away out of our hands,
 
 [8 ](/kjv/acts/24/8) Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/acts/24/9) And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/acts/24/10) Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
 
[Acts 23](/kjv/acts/23) [Acts 25](/kjv/acts/25)

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