MSTC(i)
2 "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answer this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews,
3 namely because thou art expert in all customs, and questions, which are among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4 "My living of a child, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews:
5 which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify it. For after the most straitest sect of our lay, lived I a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7 unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa am I accused of the Jews.
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible unto you, that God should raise again the dead?
9 I also verily thought in myself, that I ought to do many contrary things, clean against the name of Jesus of Nazareth:
10 which things I also did in Jerusalem. Where many of the saints shut I up in prison, and had received authority of the high priests: And when they were put to death I gave the sentence.
11 "And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme: and was yet more mad upon them, and persecuted them even unto strange cities.