Acts 22:1-5 - Paul Defends Himself

¹ Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' -- ² and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, -- ³ 'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day. ⁴ 'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, ⁵ as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,