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Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:
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Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;
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And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:
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And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.
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But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:
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Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.
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And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
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Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:
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And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia,
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And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.
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Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,
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But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.