1. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself:
2. I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before you concerning all the things of which I am accused of the Jews:
3. Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.
4. My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
5. Who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strict sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: