Acts 24:13-20

¹³neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁴But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;

¹⁵having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

¹⁶For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.

¹⁷And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

¹⁸Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,

¹⁹who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

²⁰or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council,