¹³And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me.ⁱ ¹⁴However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors^j as a follower of the Way,^k which they call a sect.^l I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,^m ¹⁵and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrectionⁿ of both the righteous and the wicked.^o ¹⁶So I strive always to keep my conscience clear^p before God and man.

¹⁷“After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor^q and to present offerings. ¹⁸I was ceremonially clean^r when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.^s ¹⁹But there are some Jews from the province of Asia,^t who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.^u ²⁰Or these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin—²¹unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’ ”^v

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Cross references

i Ac 25:7
jSee Ac 3:13
kSee Ac 9:2
lSee ver 5
m Ac 26:6, 22; 28:23
n Ac 23:6; 28:20
oSee Mt 25:46
pSee Ac 23:1
q Ac 11:29, 30; Ro 15:25–28, 31; 1 Co 16:1–4, 15; 2 Co 8:1–4; Gal 2:10
r Ac 21:26
sver 12
tSee Ac 2:9
u Ac 23:30
v Ac 23:6