Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself

¹ Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence to you. ² (And having heard that he spake to them in Hebrew dialect, they held more silence: and he says,) ³ I am truly a Jew, a man born in Tarsus, of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the exactness of the fathers' law, being zealous of God, as all ye are this day. ⁴ Who drove out this way even to death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women. ⁵ As also the chief priest testifies of me, and all the council of elders: and whose letters to the brethren having received, I went to Damascus, going to bring there the bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.