Acts 24:13–21

^13dNeither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me. ¹⁴But this I confess to you, that according to ^ethe Way, which they call ^fa sect, ^gI worship ^hthe God of our fathers, believing everything ⁱlaid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, ^15jhaving ^ka hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be ^la resurrection ^mof both the just and the unjust. ¹⁶So I always ⁿtake pains to have a ^oclear conscience toward both God and man. ¹⁷Now ^pafter several years ^qI came to bring alms to ^rmy nation and to present ^sofferings. ¹⁸While I was doing this, they found me ^tpurified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But ^usome Jews from Asia— ^19vthey ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me. ²⁰Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council, ²¹other than this one thing ^wthat I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’ ”