Acts 24:6-21

⁶And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde haue iudged him according to our Lawe:

⁷But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,

⁸Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of whom thou mayest (if thou wilt inquire) know all these things whereof we accuse him.

⁹And the Iewes likewise affirmed, saying that it was so.

¹⁰Then Paul, after that the gouernour had beckened vnto him that hee shoulde speake, answered, I do the more gladly answere for my selfe, for as much as I knowe that thou hast bene of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation,

¹¹Seeing that thou mayest knowe, that there are but twelue dayes since I came vp to worship in Hierusalem.

¹²And they neither found mee in the Temple disputing with any man, neither making vproare among the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the citie.

¹³Neither can they proue the things, whereof they now accuse me.

¹⁴But this I confesse vnto thee, that after the way (which they call heresie) so worship I the God of my fathers, beleeuing all things which are written in the Lawe and the Prophets,

¹⁵And haue hope towardes God, that the resurrection of the dead, which they themselues looke for also, shalbe both of iust and vniust.

¹⁶And herein I endeuour my selfe to haue alway a cleare conscience towarde God, and toward men.

¹⁷Now after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation and offerings.

¹⁸At what time, certaine Iewes of Asia founde mee purified in the Temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

¹⁹Who ought to haue bene present before thee, and accuse me, if they had ought against me.

²⁰Or let these themselues say, if they haue found any vniust thing in mee, while I stoode in the Council,

²¹Except it be for this one voyce, that I cried standing among them, Of the resurrection of the dead am I accused of you this day.