1. And Agrippa said to Sha’ul, “You are allowed to speak for yourself.” Then Sha’ul stretched out his hand and made his defence:
2. “I think myself blessed, Sovereign Agrippa, because today I shall make my defence before you concerning all of which I am accused by the Yehuḏim,
3. you being most of all an expert, knowing of all practices and questions which have to do with the Yehuḏim. So, please hear me patiently.
4. “Truly, then, all the Yehuḏim know my way of life from youth, which I led from the beginning among my own nation at Yerushalayim,
5. since they have known me from the first, if they wish to witness, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our observance.
6. “And now I stand and am judged for the expectation of the promise made by Elohim to our fathers,