Acts 24:10-21 On a sign from the Governor, Paul made this reply: "Knowing, as I do, for how many years you have acted as Judge to this nation, it is with confidence that I undertake my own defense.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁰ On a sign from the Governor, Paul made this reply: "Knowing, as I do, for how many years you have acted as Judge to this nation, it is with confidence that I undertake my own defense. ¹¹ For you can easily ascertain that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship at Jerusalem, ¹² Where my prosecutors never found me holding discussions with any one, or causing a crowd to collect--either in the Temple, or in the Synagogues, or about the city; ¹³ And they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me. ¹⁴ This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets; ¹⁵ And I have a hope that rests in God--a hope which they also cherish--that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike. ¹⁶ This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and man. ¹⁷ After some years' absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings; ¹⁸ And it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder. ¹⁹ There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me-- ²⁰ Or else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council, ²¹ Except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them--'It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you to-day'."