1. “Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.”
2. When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet. Then Paul said:
3. “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
4. I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,