16. I always do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and men.
17. After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my nation,
18. and while I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.
19. It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.
20. Either let these men here state what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
21. or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’ ”