Acts 24:10-16

10 When ¹the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded: "K nowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,

11 since you can take note of the fact that no more than ²twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

12 "³Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or ⁴causing a riot.

13 "⁵Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

14 "But this I admit to you, that according to ⁶the Way which they call a ⁷sect I do serve ⁸the God of our fathers, ⁹believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

15 having a hope in God, which ¹⁰these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

16 "In view of this, ¹¹I also do my best to maintain always * a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 23:24
• 2. Acts 21:18, 27; Acts 24:1
• 3. Acts 25:8
• 4. Acts 24:18
• 5. Acts 25:7
• 6. Acts 9:2; Acts 24:22
• 7. Acts 15:5; Acts 24:5
• 8. Acts 3:13
• 9. Acts 25:8; Acts 26:4ff, 22; Acts 28:23
• 10. Daniel 12:2; John 5:28; John 11:24; Acts 23:6
• 11. Acts 23:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "an attack of a mob"
• [b]. Lit "the ancestral God"
• [c]. Lit "practice myself"