3. since you are especially knowledgeable about all Jewish customs and issues. Therefore I beg you to listen patiently to me.
4. “Now all the Jewish people have known my manner of life ever since my youth, starting from the beginning in my own nation and also in Jerusalem.
5. They have known about me for a long time—if they were willing to testify—that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.
6. “Yet now I stand here being judged for the hope in the promise made by God to our fathers.