Acts 24:19-23

who ought to have been present before you and to have been bringing charges, if they should have anything against me.

Or else have these men themselves declare what violation they discovered when I stood before the Council,

other than in regard to this one declaration which I shouted while standing among them, ‘For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today!’ ”

But Felix, having quite accurate knowledge about the Way, adjourned them, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

He gave orders to the centurion for Paul to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from providing for his needs.