Acts 24:10-21 ▼

10 And Paul—the governor having beckoned to him to speak—answered, “Knowing [that] for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I answer more cheerfully the things concerning myself;

11 you being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

12 and neither did they find me reasoning with anyone in the temple, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

13 nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

14 And I confess this to you, that, according to The Way that they call a sect, so I serve the God of the fathers, believing all things that have been written in the Law and the Prophets,

15 having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

16 and in this I exercise myself, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

17 And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

18 in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

19 whom it is necessary to be present before you, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

20 or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the Sanhedrin,

21 except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them—Concerning a resurrection of the dead I am judged by you today.”