Acts 24:21
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day. Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
This belongs to Paul's trial at Caesarea, where he was brought before Felix and faced accusations presented by Tertullus on behalf of the Jerusalem leaders. It was spoken as part of a candid, straightforward defense in which he explained that he had come to Jerusalem after many years to bring alms and offerings. He stressed that he was found purified in the temple with no multitude or tumult, and that the Jews from Asia who found him there should have been present themselves to object. He affirmed that he caused no disturbance in the temple, synagogues, or city and did not profane the sanctuary. Although worshiping God after the way called heresy, he believed all things written in the law and the prophets, and his ruling purpose was to always keep a clear conscience void of offense before God and people.
It closes that defense with a challenge to the Jews present to name any evil they had found in him when he stood before the council, except for his single loud outcry standing among them that he was being called in question concerning the resurrection of the dead. By this he admitted no other offense from that council hearing and presented his open statement of faith in the resurrection as the sole ground of accusation against him. He was being questioned for that belief and not for the political crimes charged against him, and the charge proved no wrongdoing. His belief in the resurrection of the dead was in full conformity with the plain teaching of Scripture, including the law and the prophets, without swerving from belief in them.
It belongs to the Caesarean defense that left Paul in long imprisonment there while popular clamor against him continued. The accusations he had answered were baseless, yet his long imprisonment did not soften the malignant hatred of the Jews nor shake their determination to take his life. The demand for his death was urged at both Caesarea and Jerusalem not only by the mob but by a deputation of the most honorable personages headed by the high priest.