12. They did not find me arguing with anyone or inciting a riot—not in the Temple or in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.
13. Nor can they prove to you the charges they now bring against me.
14. “But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets.
15. In God I have a hope—which these men also wait for—that there will surely be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
16. “Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience before both God and men.
17. Now after several years, I came to bring tzadakah to my country for the poor and to present offerings.
18. As I was doing this, they found me in the Temple, having been purified—without any crowd or uproar.
19. But there were some Jewish people from Asia, who ought to be here before you to press charges if they have anything against me.