Acts 24:12
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
This denial belongs to Paul's own defense at Caesarea when, beckoned by Felix to answer for himself, he speaks for himself against his accusers. He answers without flattery, declaring that he can cheerfully defend himself because Felix has long been procurator and knows the laws and customs of the Jews.
In the verse he states that his accusers did not find him disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up the people in the synagogues or elsewhere in the city. By this he denies causing any disturbance in any part of Jerusalem and denies profaning the sanctuary, refuting the charge that he had provoked disorder there. Every charge against him is untrue, for the accusations of disorder and sedition and of stirring up the Jews are false and could not be proved.
Jewish tribunals condemned him without establishing his guilt, while Roman officials recognized his innocence. Despite this defense he remained long imprisoned at Caesarea, and that long imprisonment did not soften malignant Jewish hatred or shake their determination to take his life. Afterward popular clamor against him met Festus at Caesarea and was formally pressed at Jerusalem by the high priest and leading men demanding he be sent to Jerusalem for trial by the Sanhedrin, hiding a plan to murder him on the way, while Festus refused to sacrifice justice for popularity and required a fair hearing at Caesarea.