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Ask a QuestionNow the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.
Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience toward God and all people.
But, to detain you no further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.
The Jews also joined in the charge by asserting that all this was true.
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation and to offer sacrifices.
He even tried to profane the temple, and so we seized him.
We welcome this in every way and everywhere with utmost gratitude.
Neither can they prove to you the charge that they now bring against me.
Or let these men here tell what crime they had found when I stood before the council,
When the governor motioned to him to speak, Paul replied: "I cheerfully make my defense, knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation.
unless it was this one sentence that I called out while standing before them, "It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.' "
They also rebuilt the sanctuary and the interior of the temple, and consecrated the courts.
We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
But there were some Jews from Asia--they ought to be here before you to make an accusation, if they have anything against me.
Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, and they reported their case against Paul to the governor.
As you can find out, it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.
They did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd either in the synagogues or throughout the city.
I have a hope in God--a hope that they themselves also accept--that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
By examining him yourself you will be able to learn from him concerning everything of which we accuse him."