8. Commanding his accusers to come unto you: by examining of whom you yourself may take knowledge of all these things, of which we accuse him.
9. And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
10. Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Since I know that you have been for many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
11. Because you may understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
12. And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
13. Neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
14. But this I confess unto you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15. And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.