Acts 24:1-21 - Paul Before Felix At Caesarea Maritima

¹ And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor the things against Paul; ² and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, 'Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, ³ always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; ⁴ and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; ⁵ for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes -- ⁶ who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, ⁷ and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, ⁸ 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;' ⁹ and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.

¹⁰ 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; ¹¹ thou 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 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; ¹³ nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me. ¹⁴ '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, ¹⁵ 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; ¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always. ¹⁷ 'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings, ¹⁸ in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult, ¹⁹ whom it behoveth to be present before thee, 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 sanhedrim, ²¹ 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.'