¹⁵ For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”^(A)

¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. ¹⁸ For Christ also suffered^[a] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you^[b] to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,^(A)

²⁰ And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; he remained there in prison.^(A)

¹⁰ the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex,^[a] slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching^(A)

¹⁰ Paul said, “I am standing before the emperor’s tribunal; this is where I should be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know. ¹¹ Now if I am in the wrong and have committed something for which I deserve to die, I am not trying to escape death, but if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can turn me over to them. I appeal to the emperor.”^(A)

¹² They did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd either in the synagogues or throughout the city.^{(A) 13} Neither can they prove to you the charge that they now bring against me.^{(B) 14} But this I admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors, believing everything laid down according to the law or written in the prophets.^{(C) 15} I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be a resurrection of both^[a] the righteous and the unrighteous.^{(D) 16} Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience toward God and all people.^{(E) 17} Now after some years I came to bring alms to my people and to offer sacrifices.^{(F) 18} While I was doing this, they found me in the temple completing the rite of purification, without any crowd or disturbance.^{(G) 19} But there were some Jews from Asia—they ought to be here before you to make an accusation, if they have anything against me.^{(H) 20} Or let these men here tell what crime they had found when I stood before the council, ²¹ unless it was this one sentence that I called out while standing before them, ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’ ”^(I)

²⁵ It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’^(A)

³² Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?”

²² My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.”^(A)