Acts 24:13–21

¹³Neither can they provide evidence to you of what they now bring against me. ¹⁴But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, ⁱwhich they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets. ^j15And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection, ^klboth of the righteous and the unrighteous. ^m16I always do my best to have a clear conscience ⁿtoward God and men. ¹⁷After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my nation, ^o18and while I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar. ^p19It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me. ²⁰Either let these men here state what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin, ²¹or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’ ”