Indictments: Paul

…and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”

“This man is persuading the people to worship God in ways contrary to the law,” they said.

We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.

They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”