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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
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who also hath gone about profaning the temple. Him we took and would have judged according to our law.
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But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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commanding his accusers to come unto thee, so that by examining him thyself, thou mayest have knowledge of all of these things whereof we accuse him."
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And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
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Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered: "Inasmuch as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself.
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For thou mayest understand that there have been yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
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And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither stirring up the people, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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But this I confess unto thee, that according to the Way, which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
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And I have hope in God, which they themselves also hold, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.