Acts 24:8-20

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

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

¹⁰When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defence,

¹¹seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.

¹²In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.

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

¹⁴But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

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

¹⁶In this I also practise always having a conscience void of offence towards God and men.

¹⁷Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

¹⁸amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

¹⁹They ought to have been here before you and to make accusation if they had anything against me.

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