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who said, I enter upon my defence with the greater confidence, by considering you have govern'd this nation several years: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>possibly you are appriz'd, that it is not above twelve days since, that I went to Jerusalem to worship. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>they neither found me in conference with any one in the temple, nor working up the people either in the assemblies or in the streets: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>so far are they from proving what they lay to my charge. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I do indeed own, that I serve the God of our nation according to the discipline they call sect: and believe whatever is written in the law and in the prophets. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I have the same expectations from the DEITY, which they themselves entertain, that of the resurrection both of the just and of the unjust. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple: <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>there religiously employ'd some Asiatic Jews found me, without crowd or tumult: <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and here they ought to have appear'd, if they had any thing to object against me. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>or let these now declare, if they could convict me of any misdemeanor, when I was brought before the Sanhedrim: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>unless it be, that I did indeed break out into this expression, it "is for the resurrection of the dead, that I am now call'd into question."<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">The Verdict Postponed<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Felix adjourn'd them, saying, I shall inform myself more particularly of this sect, and when general Lysias comes, I will give you a full hearing. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Felix then order'd a centurion to take Paul into his custody, without confining him so as to hinder his friends from waiting upon him.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>some time after he came to Cesarea with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess, when sending for Paul, he heard him discourse about the Christian faith. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, "withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you." <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>this he frequently did, and convers'd with him upon the presumption that Paul would have <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>offer'd him mony in order to obtain his discharge, but two years after he was succeeded by Porcius Festus, who to oblige the Jews left Paul under confinement.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../acts/23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../acts/25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 25" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>