Acts 24:10-21

10 When ¹the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded: "K nowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,

11 since you can take note of the fact that no more than ²twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

12 "³Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or ⁴causing a riot.

13 "⁵Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

14 "But this I admit to you, that according to ⁶the Way which they call a ⁷sect I do serve ⁸the God of our fathers, ⁹believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

15 having a hope in God, which ¹⁰these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

16 "In view of this, ¹¹I also do my best to maintain always * a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

17 "Now ¹²after several years I ¹³came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

18 in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been ¹⁴purified, without * any ¹⁵crowd or uproar. But there were some ¹⁶Jews from Asia -

19 who ought to have been present before you and to ¹⁷make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

20 "Or else let these men themselves tell what misdeed they found when I stood before ¹⁸the Council,

21 other than for this one statement which ¹⁹I shouted out while standing among them, 'For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.' "

Cross References

• 1. Acts 23:24
• 2. Acts 21:18, 27; Acts 24:1
• 3. Acts 25:8
• 4. Acts 24:18
• 5. Acts 25:7
• 6. Acts 9:2; Acts 24:22
• 7. Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5
• 8. Acts 3:13
• 9. Acts 25:8; Acts 26:4ff, 22; Acts 28:23
• 10. Daniel 12:2; John 5:28; John 11:24; Acts 23:6
• 11. Acts 23:1
• 12. Acts 20:31
• 13. Acts 11:29; Romans 15:25-28; 1 Corinthians 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 9:1, 2, 12; Galatians 2:10
• 14. Acts 21:26
• 15. Acts 24:12
• 16. Acts 21:27
• 17. Acts 23:30
• 18. Matthew 5:22
• 19. Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "an attack of a mob"
• [b]. Lit "the ancestral God"
• [c]. Lit "practice myself"
• [d]. Or "gifts to charity"
• [e]. I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor
• [f]. Or "Sanhedrin"