Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 "Brothers and fathers, listen now to what I have to say in my defense." 2 When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued: 3 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today. 4 I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail, 5 as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.