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who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,
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and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,
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having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'
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and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.
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And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;
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thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,
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and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
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nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.
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`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,
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having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;
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and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.