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

¹⁰ Then at a nod from the governor, Paul spoke. "Because I know that for many years you have been a judge in this nation, I feel encouraged to make my defense. ¹¹ "For you have it in your power to know that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to Jerusalem to worship; ¹² "and that neither in the Temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city, did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd. ¹³ "Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me. ¹⁴ "But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets, ¹⁵ "and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust. ¹⁶ "Hence I too endeavor to have a conscience void of offense toward God and men alway. ¹⁷ "Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices. ¹⁸ "While I was thus engaged, they found me in the temple, purified, with no crowd and no uproar. But there were certain Asiatic Jews ¹⁹ "who ought to have been here before you, and to have made accusations if they had anything against me. ²⁰ "Or let these men themselves say what fault they found, when I appeared before the Sanhedrin! ²¹ "Unless it was for this one sentence which I uttered when I stood and cried, 'It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial today before you.'"