But so as not to detain you further, I beg you in your fairness to hear us briefly.
In context
2When Paul had been called in, Tertullus began the prosecution: “Thanks to you we enjoy a long peace, and by your foresight reforms have come to this nation. 3In every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, we acknowledge it with all gratitude. 4But so as not to detain you further, I beg you in your fairness to hear us briefly. 5We have found this man to be a plague: he stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and he is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 6He even tried to desecrate the temple, and we arrested him.
