Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Acts 24:11-21 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. For thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days, since I went up to adore in Jerusalem:

12. And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man, or causing any concourse of the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

13. Neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now accuse me.

14. But this I confess to thee, that according to the way, which they call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets:

15. Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.

16. And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence toward God, and towards men.

17. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings, and vows.

18. In which I was found purified in the temple: neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

19. But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had any thing against me:

20. Or let these men themselves say, if they found in me any iniquity, when standing before the council,

21. Except it be for this one voice only that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day by you.