Acts 24:10-23

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ Then Paul, after the Governor had beckoned to him that he should speak, answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I do the more gladly answer for myself,

¹¹ “seeing that you may know that it has only been twelve days since I came up to worship in Jerusalem.

¹² “And they neither found me in the Temple (disputing with any man or inciting uproar among the people), nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.

¹³ “Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁴ “But this I confess to you: that I worship the God of my Fathers as does the Way (which they call heresy), believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets.

¹⁵ “And I have hope in God that the resurrection of the dead, (which they themselves also look for) shall be of both just and unjust.

¹⁶ “And in this I myself always endeavor to have a clear conscience toward God and toward man.

¹⁷ “Now after many years, I came and brought alms and offerings to my nation.

¹⁸ “At which time, some Asian Jews found me (with neither multitude nor tumult) purified in the Temple.

¹⁹ “They ought to have been present to accuse me before you, if they have anything against me.

²⁰ “Or else let these themselves say if they have found any unjust thing in me while I stood in the Council,

²¹ “except for this one statement which I cried out while standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I accused by you this day.’”

²² Now when Felix heard these things, he deferred them, and said, “When I shall better understand the things which concern this Way (by the coming of Lysias the chief Captain), I will decide your matter.”

²³ Then he commanded a Centurion to keep Paul, and that he should have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his friends to minister to him, or to come to him.