MODERN LITERAL VERSION

24:1 And after five days the high-priest Ananias came down with the elders and an orator, Tertullus, and they disclosed to the governor the charges against Paul.
24:2 And having been called, Tertullus began to accuse Paul, saying, We are obtaining much peace through you and public-reforms are happening to this nation through your forethought.
24:3 We accept it both in all things and everywhere, with all thanksgiving, most-excellent Felix.
24:4 But in order that I may not hinder you more, I plead with you by your gentleness to hear us briefly.
24:5 For* we have found this man a plague and he is moving this dissension to all the Jews throughout the inhabited-earth. And he is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;
24:6 who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also took-hold of. {F} And was willing to be judged according to our law.
24:7 And Lysias the commander having come near, with much violence, did take away Paul out of our hands,
24:8 having commanded his accusers to come to you. From whom you will be able, by examining him yourself, to fully know concerning all these things of which we are accusing him.
24:9 And the Jews banded together in the attack, claiming these things to be so.

24:10 And when the governor had signaled to him to speak, Paul answered, I know you have been a judge to this nation out of many years experience, I cheerfully am making my defense concerning the things concerning myself.
24:11 You surely are able to know that it is not more-than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem;
24:12 and they did not find me reasoning angrily with anyone or making* of a hostile crowd in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city,
24:13 nor are they able to present to you the things concerning me of which they now are accusing me.
24:14 But I confess this to you, that after The Way which they call a sect, so I give-divine service to the God of our forefathers, believing all things which are according to the law and which are written in the prophets.
24:15 I have hope toward God, which these themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and unrighteous.
24:16 And I apply myself in this, having a guilt-free conscience always toward God and men.
24:17 Now after many years I came bringing charity and offerings to my nation;
24:18 in which, they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd, nor with an uproar. But it was some Jews from Asia,
24:19 who ought to be here and to accuse me before you, if they have anything to accuse me.
24:20 Or let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the council,
24:21 or concerning this one voice, that I cried out standing among them. I am being judged by you* today concerning the resurrection of the dead.

24:22 But Felix, having heard these things and knowing more accurately concerning The Way, postponed judging them, saying, Whenever Lysias the commander comes down, I will investigate the things against you*.
24:23 And he commanded the centurion to guard Paul and to let him have relief from bonds, and not to forbid any of his friends to attend or to come to him.

24:24 And after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
24:25 And as he reasoned concerning righteousness and self-control and the future judgment, Felix becoming fearful, answered, Go-onward now, and when I take an opportunity, I will call you to me.
24:26 (He was hoping in the same time that monies will be given to him by Paul, *that he might loose him.) Hence he sent for him frequently and conversed with him.
24:27 But when two years were fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and wishing to lay up favors for himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
{Acts 24:6b,7,8a are missing from the majority of Greek texts.}
{July, 61 AD. Paul's appearance to Caesar.}