2. “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Judeans,
3. especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
4. “Indeed, all Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
5. having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6. Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,