Acts 24:5-14

5For we have found this man to be a pest, stirring up riots among all the Jewish people throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzratim.

6He even tried to defile the Temple, but we seized him.

8By examining him yourself, you will be able to learn from him all these things about which we accuse him.”

9The Judean leaders also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were true.

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.