Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye now my defence unto you. 2 (And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence: 3 and he saith) I am verily a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and accurately instructed in the law of our fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women: As likewise the high priest is my witness, and all the estate of the elders: 5 from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.