MKJV(i)
1 And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense:
2 Concerning all of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I think myself happy being about to make defense before you today,
3 you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.
4 Truly, then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which was at first among my own nation at Jerusalem,
5 who knew me from the first, if they would 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 to our fathers by God,
7 to which promise our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
8 Why is it thought a thing incredible with you that God raises the dead?
9 I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
10 which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote.
11 And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.