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Paul’s Witness in Jerusalem – <a id="si_4" onclick="return mV('Act',21,'18-');">Act 21:18-40</a>; <a id="si_5" onclick="return mV('Act',22,'1-');">Act 22</a>; <a id="si_6" onclick="return mV('Act',23,'1-37');">Act 23:37</a>
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Before the mob – <a id="si_7" onclick="return mV('Act',21,'18-');">Act 21:18-40</a> - <a id="si_8" onclick="return mV('Act',22,'1-23');">Act 22:23</a>
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Before the Sanhedrin – <a id="si_9" onclick="return mV('Act',22,30);">Act 22:30</a> - <a id="si_10" onclick="return mV('Act',23,'1-');">Act 23</a>
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Paul’s Witness in Caesarea – <a id="si_11" onclick="return mV('Act',23,'12-26');">Act 23:12-26</a>
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Before Governor Felix – <a id="si_12" onclick="return mV('Act',24,'1-27');">Act 24:1-27</a>
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The false accusers – <a id="si_13" onclick="return mV('Act',25,'1-8');">Act 25:1-8</a>
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Ananias, the High Priest - filled with hatred
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The Elders
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Tentullus, the lawyer, a clever orator
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The accusations – <a id="si_14" onclick="return mV('Act',25,'2-9');">Act 25:2-9</a>
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Praise to Felix
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Paul, a trouble-maker, a serious charge
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Leader of a revolution, such as Barabas
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Profaner of the Temple
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The Defense – <a id="si_15" onclick="return mV('Act',25,'10-21');">Act 25:10-21</a>
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The refutation of the accusations – <a id="si_16" onclick="return mV('Act',25,'10-13');">Act 25:10-13</a>
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Denied the charges
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Demanded proof
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The statement of the real reason for their opposition – <a id="si_17" onclick="return mV('Act',25,'14-21');">Act 25:14-21</a>
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The effect – <a id="si_18" onclick="return mV('Act',25,22,23);">Act 25:22-23</a>
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Felix is not impressed with the accusers
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He postponed the case
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The second witness before Felix – <a id="si_19" onclick="return mV('Act',25,24,25,26);">Act 25:24-26</a>
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The occasion: He wanted his wife, a Jew, to hear Paul
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The content
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Righteousness – Condemning the hypocrisy of the ruler
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Temperance or self-control – Condemning the illegal marriage
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Judgment
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The result
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Felix was terrified – <a id="si_20" onclick="return mV('Act',24,25);">Act 24:25</a>
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He kept Paul in custody
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He tried to extort money
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He committed spiritual suicide
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Felix was a cruel ruler – <a id="si_21" onclick="return mV('Act',24,27);">Act 24:27</a>
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He was living in adultery
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He was corrupt
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He was a man of perpetual compromise
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He was a man of procrastination
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He was a man of vacillation
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Vacillation becomes hardness
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