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1 “Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.” 2 and they having heard that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more silent, and he says, 3 “I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactness of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all you are today. 4 And this Way I persecuted to death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, 5 as also the chief priest testifies to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters to the brothers, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished, Acts 22:1-5, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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