1. Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now to you.
2. (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
3. I am verily a man who am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, being zealous towards God, as ye all are this day.
4. And I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.