Acts 26:4-9

⁴My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

⁵who knew me before from the outset of my life, if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁶And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

⁷to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of the Jews.

⁸Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?

⁹I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.