Wesley(i)
1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself.
2 And Paul, stretching forth his hand, made his defence. I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am this day to make my defence before thee, concerning all those things whereof I am accused by the Jews,
3 Who art accurately acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews, wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4 The manner of my life from my youth which was from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem,
5 all the Jews know, Who knew me from the first, (if they would testify) that I lived a Pharisee, after the strictest sect of our religion.
6 And now I stand in judgment, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers:
7 To which our twelve tribes, worshiping continually night and day, hope to attain: concerning which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
8 What? Is it judged by you an incredible thing, that God should raise the dead?
9 I indeed thought myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth:
10 Which also I did in Jerusalem: and having received authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prisons, and when they were killed, I gave my vote against them.
11 And frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.