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2 »I would be happy, King Agrippa, to answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which the Jews accuse me.
3 »I know you are an expert in all customs and controversy among the Jews. Therefore I urge you to hear me patiently.
4 »All the Jews know the way I first lived as a youth among my own nation at Jerusalem.
5 »They knew me from the beginning. They could testify that I was from the strictest sect of our religion and I lived as a Pharisee.
6 »Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.
7 »Our twelve tribes served God day and night with the promise and hope of what was to come. It is because of this hope that the Jews accuse me, King Agrippa.
8 »Why should it be an incredible thought to you that God should raise the dead?
9 »I was convinced that I should oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10 »That I did in Jerusalem. I locked up many of the holy ones in prison. I received authority from the chief priests and gave the command to put them to death.
11 »I punished them in every synagogue and tried to force them to recant their beliefs. I was exceedingly mad against them. I persecuted them even in strange cities.