3. since you are especially knowledgeable about all Jewish customs and issues. Therefore I beg you to listen patiently to me.
4. “Now all the Jewish people have known my manner of life ever since my youth, starting from the beginning in my own nation and also in Jerusalem.
5. They have known about me for a long time—if they were willing to testify—that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.
6. “Yet now I stand here being judged for the hope in the promise made by God to our fathers.
7. It is the promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jewish people, O King!
8. Why is it judged incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
9. “In fact, I myself thought it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Yeshua ha-Natzrati.