3. we accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thanks.
4. “But in order not to hinder you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly in your gentleness.
5. “For having found this man a plague, who stirs up dissension among all the Yehuḏim throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natsarenes,
6. who also tried to profane the Set-apart Place, and whom we seized, and wished to judge him according to our law,
7. but the commander Lysias came along and with much violence took him out of our hands,
8. commanding his accusers to come to you. And by examining him yourself you shall be able to know all these matters of which we accuse him.”
9. And the Yehuḏim also agreed, maintaining that these matters were so.
10. And when the governor had motioned him to speak, Sha’ul answered, “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge of this nation, I gladly defend myself,
11. seeing you are able to know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Yerushalayim to worship.
12. “And they neither found me in the Set-apart Place disputing with anyone nor stirring up the crowd, either in the congregations or in the city.
13. “Nor are they able to prove the charges of which they now accuse me.
14. “And this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the Elohim of my fathers, believing all that has been written in the Torah and in the Prophets,
15. having an expectation in Elohim, which they themselves also wait for, that there is to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.
16. “And in this I exercise myself to have a clear conscience toward Elohim and men always.