1. "Noble brothers and fathers, listen to the explanation that I now give to you."
2. And when they heard him speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they offered a greater silence.
3. And he said: "I am a Jewish man, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but raised in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, just as all of you also are to this day.
4. I persecuted this Way, even unto death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women,