1. Brethren and fathers, hear my defence which I now make to you.
2. And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,
3. I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye are all this day;
4. who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women;