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For the Sadducees indeed say there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit. But Pharisees confess both.

And coming to him in the following night the Lord said, Be cheered, Paul, for as you fully testified the things concerning Me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome.

And calling near one of the centurions, Paul said, Bring this young man to the chiliarch, for he has something to report to him.

Therefore, you must not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them lie in wait for him who put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they kill him. And now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you.

For he was writing a letter, having this form:

And being minded to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrin;

For having found this man pestilent and moving insurrection among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the Nazarene sect;

And after some days, Felix having arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul. And he heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

And Paul having reasoned concerning righteousness and self control, and the Judgment that is about to be, becoming afraid, Felix answered, For the present, go; but taking time later, I will call for you;

and with it all also hoping that silver would be given to him by Paul, that he might free him. Because of this he also more frequently sent for him and conversed with him.

asking a favor against him, so as he might send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on the way.

For if I indeed do wrong and have done anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which they accuse me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

But Paul having appealed for himself to be kept to the examination of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar.

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner, and not also to signify the charges against him.

And Agrippa said to Paul, It is allowed for you yourself to speak. Then Paul made a defense, stretching out the hand:

And now for the hope of the promise having been made by God to the fathers, I stand being judged;

And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.

but rise up and stand on your feet, for it is for this reason I appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you,

For the king understands about these things, to whom I speak, even being bold of speech. For I am persuaded not any of these things are hidden from him, nothing. For the doing of this is not in a corner.

And Paul said, I would pray to God, both in a little and in much, not only you, but also these hearing me today to become as I also am, except for these bonds.