ABU(i)
2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself before thee this day, concerning all things whereof I am accused by Jews;
3 especially since thou art expert in all the customs and questions among Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4 My manner of life, therefore, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all Jews know;
5 having known me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers;
7 unto which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving day and night, hope to attain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by Jews.
8 Why is it judged incredible with you, if God, raises the dead?
9 I therefore thought to myself, that I ought to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
10 Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11 And punishing them often, throughout all the synagogues, I constrained them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them also unto foreign cities.