American Standard Version

Acts 26:5-9 American Standard Version (ASV)

5. having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

6. And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

7. unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

8. Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

9. I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.