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

¹⁰ Then the governour sign'd to Paul to reply; who said, I enter upon my defence with the greater confidence, by considering you have govern'd this nation several years: ¹¹ possibly you are appriz'd, that it is not above twelve days since, that I went to Jerusalem to worship. ¹² they neither found me in conference with any one in the temple, nor working up the people either in the assemblies or in the streets: ¹³ so far are they from proving what they lay to my charge. ¹⁴ I do indeed own, that I serve the God of our nation according to the discipline they call sect: and believe whatever is written in the law and in the prophets. ¹⁵ I have the same expectations from the DEITY, which they themselves entertain, that of the resurrection both of the just and of the unjust. ¹⁶ and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men. ¹⁷ after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple: ¹⁸ there religiously employ'd some Asiatic Jews found me, without crowd or tumult: ¹⁹ and here they ought to have appear'd, if they had any thing to object against me. ²⁰ or let these now declare, if they could convict me of any misdemeanor, when I was brought before the Sanhedrim: ²¹ unless it be, that I did indeed break out into this expression, it "is for the resurrection of the dead, that I am now call'd into question."