Acts 24:6-21

⁶and hath also enforsed to pollute the temple. Whom we toke and wolde have iudged acordinge to oure lawe:

⁷but the hye captayne Lisias came vpon vs and with great violence toke him awaye out of oure hodes

⁸commaundinge his accusars to come vnto the. Of who thou mayst (yf thou wilt enquyre) knowe the certayne of all these thinges where of we accuse him.

⁹The Iewes lyke wyse affermed sayinge that it was even so.

¹⁰Then Paul (after that the rular him selfe had beckened vnto him that he shuld speake) answered: I shall with a moare quyet minde answere for my selfe for as moche as I vnderstonde that thou hast bene of many yeares a iudge vnto this people

¹¹because that thou mayst knowe that there are yet .xii. dayes sence I went vp to Ierusalem for to praye

¹²and that they nether founde me in the temple disputinge with eny man other raysinge vp the people nether in the Synagoges nor in the cite.

¹³Nether can they prove the thinges wher of they accuse me.

¹⁴But this I confesse vnto the that after that waye (which they call heresy) so worshippe I the God of my fathers belevinge all thinges which are writte in the lawe and the Prophetes

¹⁵and have hope towardes God that the same resurreccion from deeth (which they them selves loke for also) shalbe both of iust and vniust.

¹⁶And therfore stody I to have a cleare consciece towarde God and toward man also.

¹⁷But after many yeres I came and brought almes to my people and offeringes in the which they founde me purified in the temple nether with multitude nor yet with vnquyetnes.

¹⁸Howbeit there were certayne Iewes out of Asia

¹⁹which ought to be here present before the and accuse me yf they had ought agaynst me:

²⁰or els let these same here saye if they have founde eny evyll doinge in me whill I stonde here in the counsell:

²¹except it be for this one voyce that I cryed stondinge amonge the of the resurreccion from deeth am I iudged of you this daye.