ACTS 26:4-9

⁴My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation, and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

⁵having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, how that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁶And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

⁷unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

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

⁹I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.