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But I confess this to you: that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I worship my fathers' God, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
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And I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
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I always do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and men.
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After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my nation,
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and while I was doing this, some Jews from the province of Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.
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It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.
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Either let these men here state what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
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or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, 'Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.' "