Acts 24:13–21

¹³Nor can they give you proof of the accusations they now bring against me. ¹⁴I do admit this to you: I worship the God of our ancestors by following that Way which they say is false. But I also believe in everything written in the Law of Moses and the books of the prophets. ¹⁵I have the same hope in God that these themselves have, namely, that all people, both the good and the bad, will rise from death. ¹⁶And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and human beings.

^17*

“After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices. ^18*It was while I was doing this that they found me in the Temple after I had completed the ceremony of purification. There was no crowd with me and no disorder. ¹⁹But some Jews from the province of Asia were there; they themselves ought to come before you and make their accusations if they have anything against me. ²⁰Or let these who are here tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the Council- ^21*except for the one thing I called out when I stood before them: ‘I am being tried by you today for believing that the dead will rise to life.’ ”