Acts 24:6-21

⁶who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,

⁷and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

⁸having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'

⁹and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.

¹⁰And Paul answered — the governor having beckoned to him to speak — 'Knowing that for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

¹¹thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

¹²and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

¹³nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

¹⁴'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

¹⁵having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

¹⁶and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹⁷'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

¹⁸in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

¹⁹whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

²⁰or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

²¹except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them — Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'