1. Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you.
2. (And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence, and he said,)
3. I am indeed 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 truth of the law of the fathers, zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.