15. "I have a tikvah (hope) in Hashem, which also these ones themselves anticipate, the coming Techiyas HaMesim of both the Tzaddikim and the Resha'im.
16. "In view of this, I always do my best to keep a matzpun naki (clear conscience) before Hashem and before anashim.
17. "Now after many years, I came bringing nedavot (donations) to my people and also to make korbanot (sacrifices).
18. "And this is how they found me, having undergone purification in the Beis Hamikdash, not with rioters nor with any disturbance.
19. "But there were some Yehudim from the Province of Asia who ought to be present before you to make accusation, if they might have something against me.
20. "Or let these themselves say what crime they found in me when they stood me before the Sanhedrin,
21. "unless it is about this one statement, which I stood and cried out among them, and that statement was concerning the Techiyas HaMesim, and it is for this that I am being judged today by you."
22. But Felix, who was already rather well informed about the Derech Hashem, adjourned the meeting, saying, "When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case."