16. For this reason also I myself always do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people.
17. So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,
18. in which they found me purified in the temple courts, not with a crowd or with a disturbance.
19. But there are some Jews from Asia who ought to be present before you and bring charges against me, if they have anything against me,
20. or these men themselves should say what crime they found when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
21. other than concerning this one declaration that I shouted while standing there before them: ‘I am being judged before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead!’ ”
22. But Felix, because he understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the military tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”
23. He ordered the centurion for him to be guarded and to have some freedom, and in no way to prevent any of his own people from serving him.