1. "Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you."
2. And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said,
3. "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.
4. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,