Acts 24:13–21

¹³“^aNor are they able to prove to you of what they are now accusing me.

¹⁴“But this I confess to you, that according to ^athe Way, which they call a ^bsect, I do serve ^1cthe God of our fathers, ^dbelieving everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

¹⁵having a hope in God, for which ^athese men are waiting, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹⁶“In view of this, ^aI also ¹do my best to maintain always a conscience without fault both before God and before men.

¹⁷“Now ^aafter several years I ^bcame to bring ¹alms to my nation and offerings;

¹⁸in which they found me, having been ^apurified in the temple, without any ^bcrowd or uproar. But there were some ^cJews from ¹Asia—

¹⁹who ought to have been present before you and to ^amake accusation, if they should have anything against me.

²⁰“Or else let these men themselves tell what wrongdoing they found when I stood before ^athe Sanhedrin,

²¹other than for this one statement which ^aI shouted out while standing among them, ‘For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today.’”