1. “My brothers and fathers, listen to what I am about to say to you in my defense.”
2. When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they became all the more quiet. And he continued,
3. “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated strictly in our ancestral law and was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
4. I persecuted this Way to death, binding both men and women and delivering them to prison.