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

¹⁰ Then Paul, after the governor had made a sign to him to speak, answered, Knowing thou hast been for several years a judge to this nation, I the more chearfully answer for myself: ¹¹ As thou mayst know, that it is but twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem. ¹² And they neither found me disputing with any man in the temple, nor making an insurrection among the people, either in the synagogues or in the city. ¹³ Nor can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. But this I confess unto thee, ¹⁴ that after the way, which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: ¹⁵ Having hope in God, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the unjust, which they themselves also expect. ¹⁶ And for this cause do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. ¹⁷ Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings. ¹⁸ Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purifying in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult: ¹⁹ Who ought to have been present before thee, and to accuse me, if they had any thing against me. ²⁰ Or let these themselves say, what crime they found in me, when I stood before the council, ²¹ Unless it be concerning this one word, that I cried, standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead, I am called in question by you this day.