8. commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”
9. And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
10. Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: “Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,
11. because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
12. And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.