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Now when you question him, you can learn for yourself concerning all these things of which we accuse him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>The Jews also witnessed against him, declaring that these things were true.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the governor beckoned to Paul to speak. Paul answered and said, For in as much as I know that you have been a judge for many years to this people, therefore I do the more cheerfully answer in my own defense: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>So that you may understand, that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor have I had an assembly either in their synagogues or in the city: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Nor can they prove before you the things of which they accuse me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>But this I confess, that in that very teaching which they mention, I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And I have the same hope in God which they themselves hold, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>For this reason, I labor to have always a clear conscience before God and before men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>Now after many years, I came to my own people to distribute alms and to present an offering. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>So these men found me purifying myself in the temple, not in a crowd, nor in a riot, except the riot which was caused by the Jews who had come from Asia Minor, <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>Who ought to have been here with me before you, to make whatever accusations they have against me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>Or else let these same people here say, what fault they found in me when I stood before their council. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Except it be for this one saying which I cried standing before them, It is for the resurrection of the dead that I am tried before you this day.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>But because Fe’lix was thoroughly familiar with this teaching, he deferred them, saying, When the chief captain comes down, I will give you a hearing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul in comfort, and that none of his acquaintances should be prevented from ministering to him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And after a few days, Fe’lix with his wife Dru-sil’la, who was a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And as he spoke with them concerning righteousness, holiness, and the judgment to come, Fe’lix was filled with fear, and said, You may go, and when I have opportunity I will send for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>Since he was expecting a bribe from Paul, he often sent for him to be brought and conversed with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/acts/24-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And when he had completed two years, another governor succeeded him whose name was Por’ci-us Fes’tus: and Fe’lix, to do the Jews a favor, left Paul a prisoner.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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