Acts 24:10-21

10 Then, at a sign from the Governor, Paul answered, "Knowing, Sir, that for many years you have administered justice to this nation, I cheerfully make my defence.
11 For you have it in your power to ascertain that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship in Jerusalem;
12 and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me.
13 Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me.
14 But this I confess to you--that in the way which they style a heresy, I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets,
15 and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers themselves also entertain, that before long there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
16 This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.
17 "Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.
18 While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia.
19 They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.
20 Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
21 unless it was in that one expression which I made use of when I shouted out as I stood among them, "`The resurrection of the dead is the thing about which I am on my trial before you to-day.'"
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