Acts 24:10-21 ▼

10 Then Paul, when the governor permitted him to speak, answered in this manner, "As I know that thou hast been many years a judge to this nation, I do the more chearfully answer for myself:

11 because thou mayst know, that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem:

12 and they neither found me disputing with any one in the temple, or making sedition among the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

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

14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way, which they call heresy, so do I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law, and the prophets:

15 having hope in God, (which they themselves also expect) that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

16 And on this account do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men.

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

18 Upon which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude nor with tumult:

19 who ought to have been here before thee, and make good their charge, if they had any thing against me.

20 Or let these themselves say, if they found any crime in me, when I stood before the sanhedrim;

21 unless for this one expression, that I cried out when I stood among them, For the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day."