1
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
2
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
3
"I am indeed a Yehudi, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamli'el, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
4
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5
As also the Kohen Gadol and all the council of the Zakenim testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and journeyed to Dammesek to bring them also who were there to Yerushalayim in bonds to be punished.
6
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Dammesek, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.