Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself

¹ Brethren and fathers! Hear ye, the defence, which I now make unto you: - ² And, when they heard that, in the Hebrew language, he had begun to address them, they kept the more quiet. And he saith - ³ I, am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but nurtured in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, - trained after the strictness of our ancestral law; being jealous for God just as, all ye, are this day; ⁴ and, this way, I persecuted unto the death, binding and delivering up into prisons both men and women: - ⁵ as, even the High-priest, beareth me witness, and all the Eldership, - from whom, letters also, accepting to the brethren, unto Damascus, was I journeying, to bring them who were there bound unto Jerusalem, that they might be punished.