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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.
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`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
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in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,
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whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,
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or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,
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except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'
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And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;'
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having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.
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And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,