⁵ Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”

^13 (A)Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me. ¹⁴ But this I confess to you, that according to ^(B)the Way, which they call ^(C)a sect, ^(D)I worship ^(E)the God of our fathers, believing everything ^(F)laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, ^15 (G)having ^(H)a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be ^(I)a resurrection ^(J)of both the just and the unjust. ¹⁶ So I always ^(K)take pains to have a ^(L)clear conscience toward both God and man.

²⁰ Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council, ²¹ other than this one thing ^(A)that I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”

¹⁷ He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, ^(A)for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

⁶ When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, ^(A)“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for ^(B)I find no guilt in him.” ⁷ The Jews^[a] answered him, “We have a law, and ^(C)according to that law he ought to die because ^(D)he has made himself the Son of God.”

⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^(A)Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.