Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now. 2 They heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue and became quiet. 3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in Jerusalem as a student of Gamaliel. I received instruction in the Law of our ancestors and was just as zealous for God as are all of you. 4 I persecuted the people who followed this Way to the point of death. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison. 5 The High Priest and the whole Council can prove that I am telling the truth. I received letters from them written to fellow Jews in Damascus, so I went there to arrest these people and bring them back in chains to Jerusalem to be punished.