Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 MEN, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my apology which I now offer unto you. 2 Then when they heard that he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence: and he said, 3 I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day: 4 so much so that I persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women. 5 As also the high-priest will bear me witness, and all the body of elders: from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, I went unto Damascus, to bring those who were there in chains unto Jerusalem, that they might be punished.