16. This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
17. After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,
18. which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.
19. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.
20. Or these men here should tell what crime they found me guilty of when I stood before the council,
21. other than this one thing I shouted out while I stood before them: ‘I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”
22. Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”
23. He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.
24. Some days later, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.