CAB(i)
1 then Agrippa said to Paul, "It is permitted for you to speak for yourself." So Paul, having extended his hand, spoke in his own defense:
2 I have considered myself fortunate, King Agrippa, being able to speak in my own defense today, concerning all the things of which I am accused of by the Jews,
3 especially since you are well versed both in all the customs and questions in relation to the Jews; therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
4 Therefore my way of life from my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews know,
5 since they have known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now for the hope of the promise having been made by God to the fathers, I stand before you judged,
7 a promise to which our twelve tribes, as they earnestly serve God night and day, hope to attain. Concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.
8 Why is it considered such an unbelievable thing by you people if God raises the dead?
9 Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;
10 which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
11 And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even as far as to foreign cities.