Acts 26:3-11

1. 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.

2. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

3. 5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

4. 6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

5. 7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

6. 8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

7. 9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

8. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

9. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

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