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Men,brethren,andfathers, hear yemydefence which I make nowuntoyou.
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(And when they heardthat he spake in the Hebrewtongue to them, they kept the moresilence:and he saith,)
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Iamverily a man which am a Jew,borninTarsus, a city in Cilicia,yet brought upinthiscityat the feet of Gamaliel, and taughtaccording to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and waszealous toward God,asyeallare this day.