Acts 24:8-20

⁸By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”

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

¹⁰When the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul answered: “Knowing, as I do, that you have been an equitable judge of this nation for many years, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,

¹¹because you can ascertain that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

¹²They did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd—not in the temple, not in the synagogues, not around the city.

¹³Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁴But I do profess this to you, that according to the Way that they call a sect, that is how I worship the ancestral God, believing all things that stand written throughout the Law and the Prophets,

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

¹⁶And this is why I apply myself to always have a clear conscience before both God and men.

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

¹⁸in the midst of which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor confusion.

¹⁹They are the ones that had to be here before you and make accusation, if they had anything against me.

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