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because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.
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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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Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
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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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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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This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
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Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
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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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They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.
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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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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.' "