Acts 24:15-26

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,

²¹other than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching the resurrection of the dead.

²²And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;

²³ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.

²⁴And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

²⁵And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;

²⁶hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.