1. “Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now.”
2. And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept all the more silent.Then he said:
3. “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today.
4. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,