“Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”