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Nor can they prove to you the things whereof they now accuse me.
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But this I confess to you, that after 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;
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having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
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Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
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Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;
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amid which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult. But certain Jews from Asia --
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who ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
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Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
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unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"
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But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, "When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case."
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He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.