Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 Men, brothers and fathers, hear my present defense before you. 2 And hearing that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the greater silence. 3 And he said, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, instructed at the feet of Gamaliel in the accurate interpretation of the law of our fathers, and am a zealous worshipper of God as you all are to-day; 4 and I persecuted this way to death, binding and committing to prison both men and women, 5 as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.