then he said, I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but had my education in this city: at the feet of Gamaliel I was instructed in the law, and in the exact decisions of our fathers, and was as religiously zealous as you are at this time.

Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham?

Of the tribe

You will say then, hath God discarded his people? by no means. for I my self am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

An

At that time, as the number of the disciples was multiplied, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the distribution that was made daily.

Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham?

Pharisee

But as Paul knew that one part of the Sanhedrim were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out, my brethren, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and I am now prosecuted for believing the resurrection of the dead."

what course of life I led at Jerusalem, where I was brought up from my youth among those of my own nation, is known to all the Jews.

General references

and on the eighth day were present at the circumcision of the child. but upon their proposing to call him by his father's name, Zacharias: his mother objected to it,

but new wine must be put into new skins, and both will be preserv'd.

these advantages I renounce for Christ,