²⁹ (They had previously seen Trophimus^(A) the Ephesian^(B) in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)

⁶ and even tried to desecrate the temple;^(A) so we seized him.

¹³ And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me.^(A)

¹⁸ I was ceremonially clean^(A) when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.^(B)

⁷ When Paul came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. They brought many serious charges against him,^(A) but they could not prove them.^(B)

⁸ Then Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or against the temple^(C) or against Caesar.”