Acts

And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense:

Concerning all of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I think myself happy being about to make defense before you today,

you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.

Truly, then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, which was at first among my own nation at Jerusalem,

who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And now I stand and am judged for [the] hope of the promise made to our fathers by God,

to which [promise] our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

Why is it thought a thing incredible with you that God raises [the] dead?

I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,