Acts 24:10-25

10When the governor nodded for him to speak, Paul responded: “Knowing that you have been judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my own defense.

11As you can verify, it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

12They did not find me arguing with anyone or inciting a riot—not in the Temple or in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.

13Nor can they prove to you the charges they now bring against me.

14“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets.

15In God I have a hope—which these men also wait for—that there will surely be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

16“Therefore I do my best always to have a clear conscience before both God and men.

17Now after several years, I came to bring tzadakah to my country for the poor and to present offerings.

18As I was doing this, they found me in the Temple, having been purified—without any crowd or uproar.

19But there were some Jewish people from Asia, who ought to be here before you to press charges if they have anything against me.

20Or let these men themselves tell what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the Sanhedrin—

21except for this one cry I shouted out while standing among them: ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that today I am on trial before you.’”

22But Felix, having a rather extensive knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will rule on your case.”

23Then he gave the centurion orders for Paul to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from attending to his needs.

24Now some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Messiah Yeshua.

25But as he was arguing about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became afraid and said, “Go away for now! When I find time, I will summon you.”