1. Agrippa said to Paul, “It is permitted for you to speak for yourself.”Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:
2. “I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that today I am going to make a defense before you about everything I am accused of by the Jews,
3. especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
4. “All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.
5. They had previously known me for quite some time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.