17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

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17 “After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor(A) and to present offerings. 18 I was ceremonially clean(B) when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.(C) 19 But there are some Jews from the province of Asia,(D) who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.(E) 20 Or these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin— 21 unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”(F)

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