10. When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defence,
11. seeing that you can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
12. In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
13. Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
14. But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the Torah, and which are written in the Prophets;
15. having hope towards God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16. In this I also practise always having a conscience void of offence towards God and men.
17. Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
18. amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
19. They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.