²⁰ but look! Ask these men right here what wrongdoing their Council found in me, ²¹ except that I said one thing I shouldn’t^[a] when I shouted out, ‘I am here before the Council to defend myself for believing that the dead will rise again!’”

²² Felix, who knew Christians didn’t go around starting riots,^[b] told the Jews to wait for the arrival of Lysias, the garrison commander, and then he would decide the case.