4. “My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
5. They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.
6. And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
7. to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!
8. Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
9. “I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.