Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 Men, brothers and fathers! Hear my defense now to you. 2 And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew dialect, they all the more kept silence. And he said, 3 I am truly a man, a Jew born in Tarsus in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the exactness of the Law of the fathers, being a zealous one of God, as you all are today. 4 I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons; 5 as also the high priest bears witness to me, and all the elderhood. And receiving letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus indeed to lead those being bound to Jerusalem, in order that they might be punished.