16. And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and human beings.
17. “After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.
18. It was while I was doing this that they found me in the Temple after I had completed the ceremony of purification. There was no crowd with me and no disorder.
19. But some Jews from the province of Asia were there; they themselves ought to come before you and make their accusations if they have anything against me.
20. Or let these who are here tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the Council —