Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us.
Acts 24 : 10 - 23
Chapter 24
| 10 | Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: "Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,
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| 11 | because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
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| 12 | And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
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| 13 | Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
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| 14 | But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
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| 15 | I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
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| 16 | This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
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| 17 | "Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
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| 18 | in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.
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| 19 | They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.
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| 20 | Or else let those who are here themselves say if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,
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| 21 | unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, "Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day."'
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| 22 | But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the Way, he adjourned the proceedings and said, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case."
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| 23 | So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and told him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.
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The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God.
Amen.
