⁶ Now when Paul perceived that one part were ^(A)Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, ^(B)I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is ^(C)with respect to the ^(D)hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

⁷ When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him ^(A)that they could not prove. ⁸ Paul argued in his defense, “Neither ^(B)against ^(C)the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor ^(D)against Caesar have I committed any offense.”