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Acts 24:7

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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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  1. 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:

  2. Acts 24:6

    Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

  3. 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.

  4. Acts 24:9

    And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

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