They replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Jesus the Nazarene.&#8221; He told them, &#8220;I am he.&#8221; (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)<n id="2" />

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said.<n id="1" /> They<n id="2" /> know what I said.&#8221;

Pilate answered, &#8220;I am not a Jew, am I?<n id="1" /> Your own people<n id="2" /> and your chief priests handed you over<n id="3" /> to me. What have you done?&#8221;p>

<b><i>But I will punishi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>the nation they serve as slavesi>b>,&#8217; said God, &#8216;<b><i>and after these things they will come out of therei>b><n id="2" /> and <i>worshipi><n id="3" /> <i>me in this placei>.&#8217;<n id="4" />

&#8216;<b><i>I am the God of your forefathers,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>the God of Abraham, Isaac,i>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>and Jacobi>b>.&#8217;<n id="3" /> Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.<n id="4" />

So Peter went down<n id="1" /> to the men and said, &#8220;Here I am,<n id="2" /> the person you&#8217;re looking for. Why have you come?&#8221;

because I am with you, and no one will assault<n id="1" /> you to harm<n id="2" /> you, because I have many people in this city.&#8221;

but since it concerns points of disagreement<n id="1" /> about words and names and your own law, settle<n id="2" /> it yourselves. I will not be<n id="3" /> a judge of these things!&#8221;

And now,<n id="1" /> compelled<n id="2" /> by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem<n id="3" /> without knowing what will happen to me there,<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And now<n id="1" /> I know that none<n id="2" /> of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom<n id="3" /> will see me<n id="4" /> again.

I replied,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues<n id="2" /> who believed in you.

<p class="bodytext">Paul looked directly<n id="1" /> at the council<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience<n id="3" /> before God to this day.&#8221;

other than<n id="1" /> this one thing<n id="2" /> I shouted out while I stood before<n id="3" /> them: &#8216;I am on trial before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Because I was at a loss<n id="1" /> how I could investigate these matters,<n id="2" /> I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried<n id="3" /> there on these charges.<n id="4" />

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death,<n id="1" /> and when he appealed<n id="2" /> to His Majesty the Emperor,<n id="3" /> I decided to send him.<n id="4" />

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.p> <p class="bodytext">

For I could wish<n id="1" /> that I myself were accursed &#8211; cut off from Christ &#8211; for the sake of my people,<n id="2" /> my fellow countrymen,<n id="3" />

But again I ask, didn&#8217;t Israel understand?<n id="1" /> First Moses says, &#8220;<b><i>I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to angeri>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

<p class="bodytext">Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,