Acts 26:3-9

³especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things — both customs and questions — among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

⁴'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth — which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem — know do all the Jews,

⁵knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

⁶and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

⁷to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;

⁸why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

⁹'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,