11. As you can verify, not more than twelve days have passed since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
12. Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city did they find me arguing with anyone or instigating a riot among the people.
13. Nor can they prove to you the accusations they are now making against me.
14. But this I do admit to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our ancestors and I believe everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets.
15. I have the same hope in God as they themselves have that there will be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.
16. Because of this, I always strive to keep my conscience clear before God and man.
17. After many years, I came to bring alms for my nation and offerings.
18. While I was so engaged, they found me, after my purification, in the temple without a crowd or disturbance.
19. But some Jews from the province of Asia, who should be here before you to make whatever accusation they might have against me—
20. or let these men themselves state what crime they discovered when I stood before the Sanhedrin,