12. The Jews did not find me arguing with anyone in the Temple, nor did they find me stirring up the people, either in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.
13. Nor can they give you proof of the accusations they now bring against me.
14. I do admit this to you: I worship the God of our ancestors by following that Way which they say is false. But I also believe in everything written in the Law of Moses and the books of the prophets.
15. I have the same hope in God that these themselves have, namely, that all people, both the good and the bad, will rise from death.
16. And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and human beings.
17. “After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.
18. It was while I was doing this that they found me in the Temple after I had completed the ceremony of purification. There was no crowd with me and no disorder.