Acts 24:6-21

⁶who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we also arrested,

⁷(This verse omitted in Majority Text)

⁸from whom you will be able, having judged him yourself, to learn about all these things of which we are accusing him.”

⁹And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

¹⁰But Paul answered (the governor, having nodded for him to speak): “Knowing that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, the more cheerfully I defend the things concerning myself,

¹¹because you being able to know that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

¹²And they did not find me with anyone in the temple disputing, or inciting a crowd to rise up, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.

¹³Nor are they able to prove against me the things about which they are now accusing me.

¹⁴But I confess this to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing in all things which are written throughout the Law and in the Prophets,

¹⁵having hope in God, which even they themselves are waiting for, that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

¹⁶And in this I myself am engaging, having a conscience blameless toward God and men through everything.

¹⁷“And after many years I arrived to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

¹⁸among whom some Jews from Asia found me, having been purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with turmoil,

¹⁹who ought to be present before you and to make accusation if anything they might have against me.

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

²¹unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.’ ”