Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself
1 "Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now make to you." 2 And, hearing that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew language, they kept more quiet; 3 and he says, "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God, even as ye all are to-day; 4 and I persecuted this Way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women; 5 as also the high priest testifies for me, and all the eldership; from whom, having received letters, I was journeying to Damascus, intending to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.