14. I 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.
15. I have the same hope in God that these themselves have, namely, that all people, both the good and the bad, will rise from death.
16. And 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.