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I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"text":"and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"text":"In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"text":"At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. 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