1. Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.”Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defence.
2. “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Judeans,
3. especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are amongst Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
4. “Indeed, all Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning amongst my own nation and at Jerusalem;
5. having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6. Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
7. which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Judeans, King Agrippa!