MLV(i)
39 But Paul said, I am a Jew, indeed a man from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city, and I beseech of you, permit me to speak to the people.
40 Now having permitted him, Paul, standing upon the steps, beckoned with the hand to the people, and when there became much silence, he was shouting to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
22 1 Brethren and fathers! Hear my defense which I now make to you.
2 But when they heard that he was shouting to them in the Hebrew language, this provided even more quietness, and he says,
3 I Indeed am a Jew, and having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been reared in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the Law of our forefathers, being a zealous one of God, just-as you all are today;
4 and I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and giving into prisons both men and women.
5 As also the high-priest and all the eldership can testify of me; from whom I also accepted letters to the brethren, and I was traveling to Damascus and would be leading also the ones there who were bound to Jerusalem in order that they might be punished.