Acts 22:1-5 ▼

1 “Men, brothers and fathers, hear now my defense to you?.”

2 And having heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he says,

3 “I am a man, a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being a zealous one of God, even as all of you? are this day,

4 who persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering to prisons both men and women,

5 as also the high priest—and all the elderhood—testifies to me, from whom also having received letters to the brothers, I was going to Damascus to bring also those being there bound to Jerusalem so that they might be punished.