Acts 28:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ Three days after we got there, Paul called together some of the Jewish leaders and said:

My friends, I have never done anything to hurt our people, and I have never gone against the customs of our ancestors. But in Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans. ¹⁸ They looked into the charges against me and wanted to release me. They found that I had not done anything deserving death. ^19 (A) The Jewish leaders disagreed, so I asked to be tried by the Emperor.

But I don't have anything to say against my own nation.