The King James Version Bible

Acts 26:1-6

  1. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

  2. I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

  3. Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

  4. My manner of life from my youth, 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, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  6. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: