5. having known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that in accordance with the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
6. And now I stand here on trial on the basis of hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
7. to which our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve him night and day. Concerning this hope I am being accused by the Jews, O king!
8. Why is it thought incredible by you people that God raises the dead?
9. Indeed, I myself thought it was necessary to do many things opposed to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,