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Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:

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Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship

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And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:

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And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.

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But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:

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Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

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And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

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Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

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And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia,

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And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

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Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

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But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

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But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.

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And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.