1. Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak on your own behalf.” Paul stretched out his hand and defended himself as follows:
2. “King Agrippa! I consider myself fortunate that today I am to defend myself before you from all the things these Jews accuse me of,
3. particularly since you know so well all the Jewish customs and disputes. I ask you, then, to listen to me with patience.
4. “All the Jews know how I have lived ever since I was young. They know how I have spent my whole life, at first in my own country and then in Jerusalem.