Acts 24:13-20

¹³nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁴But this I acknowledge to thee, that according to the way of belief which they call a sect, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and by the Prophets;

¹⁵having a hope in God, which they themselves also entertain, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹⁶On this ground do I also myself strive to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

¹⁷And after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to make offerings;

¹⁸in doing which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult; but certain Jews from Asia caused it,

¹⁹who ought to be here before thee, and make their charge, if they had aught against me.

²⁰Or, let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the council,