Acts 22:1-5 ▼

1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear now my apology unto you.

2 And hearing that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept silent the more.

3 And he says, I am Jewish man, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, having been brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the accuracy of patristic law, being a zealot of God, as you all are this day;

4 who after this way persecuted unto death, binding and committing to prison both men and women;

5 as the high priest also, and all the eldership, witnessed me: from whom having also received letters from the brethren in Damascus, I was on my way, being about to lead them also hither into Jerusalem bound, that they might be punished.