{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Acts Daily Devotional Podcast","title":"Day 129 — Charges Brought by Tertullus (Acts 24:1-9) | September 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":442,"description":"Five days after Paul’s escort galloped out of Jerusalem, the high priest himself came down to a Gentile port to ask a corrupt pagan governor to do what God’s law would not let him do. He hated Paul more than he loved the dignity of his office. He brought a hired lawyer, Tertullus, who opened with flattery everyone in the room knew was theater, then leveled three charges built for a Roman ear: Paul is a plague and an agitator, the ringleader of the Nazarene sect, a man who tried to desecrate the temple. The charges are nearly identical to the ones leveled against Jesus before Pilate. Luke is not recording two unrelated trials. He is showing a pattern. The gospel itself is on trial, and the gospel keeps making its way through hostile courtrooms. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mDCSf6VLcVTj9DA1o6CKS_loTRTZ8WlreJzhCflj8BA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84M2Mw/NjZlMTQ5MDE0MmYw/M2Q3Y2YwZmZkM2Fm/N2M4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}