¹⁰ Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered: “Inasmuch as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself.

¹¹ For thou mayest understand that there have been yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

¹² And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither stirring up the people, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.

¹³ Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

¹⁴ But this I confess unto thee, that according to the Way, which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

¹⁵ And I have hope in God, which they themselves also hold, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

¹⁶ And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.

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

¹⁸ whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult.

¹⁹ These ought to have been here before thee to object if they had aught against me;

²⁰ or else let these same say here if they have found any evildoing in me when I stood before the council,

²¹ unless it be for this one utterance that I cried out standing among them: ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called into question by you this day.’”

²² And when Felix heard these things, having a more complete knowledge of that Way, he deferred the hearing and said, “When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.”

²³ And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, but to let him have some liberties, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintances to minister or come unto him.