so profess to look
for, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just
and of the unjust. (16)For this cause indeed I exert my utmost care to
keep my conscience ever unoffending towards God and towards man.
(17)Now after many years absence I was returned bringing alms to my
countrymen, and oblations _to the temple_. (18)In the discharge of
which offices certain Jews of Asia found me purified in the temple,
neither with a multitude, nor with any tumult. (19)Who ought to have
appeared before thee, and prefer their accusation, if they had any
thing against me. (20)Or let the persons themselves here present say,
if they found any thing criminal in me, when I stood before the
sanhedrim, (21)except for this one sentence, which I uttered aloud when
I was standing among them, For the resurrection of the dead am I this
day judged by you.

(22)When Felix then heard these things he put them off, (for he knew
very exactly all that related to that way,) saying, When Lysias the
tribune is come down, I will inquire thoroughly into the matters
between you. (23)And he commanded the centurion that Paul should be
safe kept, yet have no close confinement, and not to hinder any of his
friends from supplying his wants, or visiting him.

(24)Now after some days, Felix returning with Drusilla his wife, who
was a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in
Christ. (25)And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and
the judgment which is ready to be revealed, Felix being greatly
terrified, replied, Go, for the present, I will some time hence take
another opportunity of calling for thee. (26)Indeed he had also
entertained hope that money would be given him by Paul, in order to
release him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with
him. (27)But when two years were ended, Felix had Portius Festus
appointed for his successor: and willing to curry favour with the Jews,
Felix left Paul in chains.

CHAP. XXV.

WHEN Festus then was come into the province, after three days he went
up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. (2)And the high-priest and the principal
persons among the Jews informed him against Paul, and entreated him,
(3)begging it as a favour from him, that he would send him back to
Jerusalem, lying in wait for him to kill him on the road. (4)Then
Festus answered, that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and
that he himself was going thither shortly. (5)Let therefore, said he,