1. Agrippa said to Paul, “You’re free to speak for yourself.”Paul acknowledged King Agrippa and then began his defense.
2. “King Agrippa, I think I’m fortunate today to stand in front of you and defend myself against every charge that the Jews brought against me.
3. I say this since you are especially familiar with every custom and controversy in Judaism. So I ask you to listen patiently to me.
4. “All the Jews know how I lived the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.
5. They’ve known me for a long time and can testify, if they’re willing, that I followed the strictest party of our religion. They know that I lived my life as a Pharisee.