Paul's Defense Before Felix

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And Paul answered--the governor having beckoned to him to speak--`Knowing that for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

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thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

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and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

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nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

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`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

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having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

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and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

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`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

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in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

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whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

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or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

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except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them--Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

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