But Paul said, "I am standing before the judicial bench of Caesar, by whom it is necessary [for] me to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as also you know very well.

And they put forward false witnesses saying, "This man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against the holy place and the law;

for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

Then Paul, looking intently at the council, said, "Men, brothers, I have lived with all good conscience toward God until this day."

who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we also arrested,

And they did not find me with anyone in the temple disputing, or inciting a crowd to rise up, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.

And after many years I arrived to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

who ought to be present before you and to make accusation if anything they might have against me.

unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.'"

And it came to pass after three days that Paul called together those who were prominent among the Jews; and when they had come together, he said to them: "Men, brothers, though I have done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans,

Then they said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who arrived report or speak anything evil about you.

For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit.

And Jeremiah said to the king, How have I wronged you, or your servants, or this people, that you have put me in prison?

My God has sent His angel, and stopped the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before Him; and moreover before you, O king, I have committed no trespass.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.