Acts 24:10-21 - Paul's Defense Before Felix

¹⁰ And when the governor gestured to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing for many years thou being a judge to this nation, I gladly make a defense of these things about myself, ¹¹ thou being able to learn that there are for me not more than twelve days from which I went up to worship in Jerusalem. ¹² And they found me neither in the temple disputing against any man, nor making a gang of a group, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city. ¹³ Neither can they prove against me of which things they now accuse me. ¹⁴ But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets, ¹⁵ having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. ¹⁶ And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men. ¹⁷ Now after more years I came, going to make donations to my nation, and offerings, ¹⁸ during which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd or with a tumult, ¹⁹ who ought to be here before thee, and to accuse, if they would have anything against me. ²⁰ Or let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me, having stood before the council, ²¹ or about this one voice that I cried out standing among them: About a resurrection of the dead I am judged by you this day.