² I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:

^{3 Ref} especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

^{4 Ref} My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

^{5 Ref} having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

^{6 Ref} And now I stand `here' to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

^{7 Ref} unto which `promise' our twelve tribes, earnestly serving `God' night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

^{8 Ref} Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

^{9 Ref} I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

^{10 Ref} And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

^{11 Ref} And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.