^{10 Ref} And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

^{11 Ref} thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

^{12 Ref} and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

^{13 Ref} nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

^{14 Ref} `And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

^{15 Ref} having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, `that' there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

^{16 Ref} and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

^{17 Ref} `And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

^{18 Ref} in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

^{19 Ref} whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

²⁰ or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

^{21 Ref} except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'