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.
20. Or let these men themselves tell what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the Sanhedrin—
21. except for this one cry I shouted out while standing among them: ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that today I am on trial before you.’”
22. But Felix, having a rather extensive knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will rule on your case.”
23. Then he gave the centurion orders for Paul to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from attending to his needs.