Acts 24:13-20

¹³and they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me.

¹⁴This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Way which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

¹⁵and I have a hope that rests in God — a hope which they also cherish — that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.

¹⁶This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and people.

¹⁷After some years' absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings;

¹⁸and it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder.

¹⁹There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me —

²⁰Or else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council,