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,
7. to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving Elohim night and day, expect to attain. Concerning this expectation, O Sovereign Agrippa, I am accused by the Yehuḏim.
8. “Why is it considered ‘unbelievable’ among you if Elohim raises the dead?
9. “Therefore, indeed, I thought within myself that I ought to do much against the Name of יהושע of Natsareth,
10. which also I did in Yerushalayim, and I shut up many of the set-apart ones in prison, having received authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave my vote against them.
11. “And punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.