Sawyer(i)
1 (23:7) And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense.
2 I think myself happy, King Agrippa, in being allowed to make my defense before you to-day in respect to all things of which I am accused by the Jews,
3 especially as you are acquainted with all the customs and questions of the Jews; wherefore, I beg you to hear me patiently.
4 My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of it being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews,
5 who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
7 which our twelve tribes, serving God continually, day and night, hope to attain; of this hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
8 Why is it judged by you incredible that God raises the dead?
9 I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazoraean,
10 which I also did at Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were killed I gave my vote against them.
11 And punishing them often in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.