6. who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,
7. and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,
8. having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'
9. and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.
10. And Paul answered--the governor having beckoned to him to speak--`Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;
11. thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,
12. and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
13. nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.
14. `And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,