They said, “This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the law.”
Paul said in his defense, “I have in no way committed an offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against the emperor.”
shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place; more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”
They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law,
but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.”
Every Sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and would try to convince Jews and Greeks.
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God.”