3. especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; therefore, I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4. My manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was among my own nation at Jerusalem, is known of all the Jews,
5. who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most perfect sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;
7. unto which promise our twelve tribes, constantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?
9. I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.