14. But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
15. I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
16. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
17. “Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
18. in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.
19. They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.