Acts 24:6-21

⁶who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold:

⁸from whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him.

⁹And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.

¹⁰And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defence:

¹¹seeing that thou canst take knowledge that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:

¹²and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.

¹³Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.

¹⁴But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

¹⁵having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

¹⁶Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹⁷Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

¹⁸amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia—

¹⁹who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

²⁰Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,

²¹except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day.