Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 "Brethren and fathers," he said, "listen to my defence which I now make before you." 2 And on hearing him address them in Hebrew, they kept all the more quiet; and he said, 3 "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God. 4 I persecuted to death this new faith, continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison; 5 as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in Damascus, and I was already on my way to Damascus, intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to Jerusalem, to be punished.