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.
10. Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.