¹³ and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

¹¹ Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."

²⁸ crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"

¹² Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.

¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

⁵ All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

¹⁵ "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

⁵⁸ They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

⁸ while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."