these were facts.
024:010 Then, at a sign from the Governor, Paul answered, "Knowing, Sir,
that for many years you have administered justice to this nation,
I cheerfully make my defence.
024:011 For you have it in your power to ascertain that it is not more
than twelve days ago that I went up to worship in Jerusalem;
024:012 and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues,
nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any
opponent or collecting a crowd about me.
024:013 Nor can they prove the charges which they are now
bringing against me.
024:014 But this I confess to you--that in the way which they style a heresy,
I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything
that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets,
024:015 and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers
themselves also entertain, that before long there will be
a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
024:016 This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear
conscience in relation to God and man.
024:017 "Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms
to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.
024:018 While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified,
with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain
Jews from the province of Asia.
024:019 They ought to have been here before you, and to have been
my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.
024:020 Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found
me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
024:021 unless it was in that one expression which I made use of when I
shouted out as I stood among them, "`The resurrection of the dead