Acts 24:9-20
English Standard Version
11You can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,
12and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.
13Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.
14But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
15having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
16So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
17Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
18While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia —
19they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me.
20Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,
