13. They cannot prove the things concerning which they now accuse me.
14. However, I affirm that in accordance with the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of my fathers and believe everything written in the Law and in the Prophets.
15. I have hope in God that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust, which they also expect.
16. In this do I always strive to have a clear conscience toward God and toward men.
17. “Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
18. when some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a crowd nor an uproar.
19. They ought to be here before you to accuse me if they have any charges.
20. Or let these men say what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
21. unless it is concerning this one statement which I cried out while standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead, I am being judged by you this day.’ ”
22. When Felix, who had more exact knowledge concerning the Way, had heard this, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When Lysias the commander arrives, I will decide your case.”
23. Then he ordered the centurion to guard Paul, and to let him have liberty, and to forbid none of his own people from attending to him.