8. having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'
9. and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.
10. And Paul answered--the governor having beckoned to him to speak--`Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;
11. thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,
12. and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
13. nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.
14. `And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,
15. having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;
16. and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
17. `And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,