Acts 24:11-19

¹¹thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

¹²and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

¹³nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

¹⁴'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

¹⁵having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

¹⁶and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹⁷'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

¹⁸in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

¹⁹whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,