Acts 26:4-9

⁴Truly, all the Jews know how I lived from my youth in my own nation and at Jerusalem.

⁵They knew me from the beginning and they should admit that I lived as a Pharisee, the strictest party of our religion.

⁶Now I stand here to be judged because of my certain hope in the promise made by God to our fathers.

⁷For this is the promise that our twelve tribes sought to receive as they earnestly worshiped God night and day. It is for this certain hope, King Agrippa, that the Jews accuse me.

⁸Why should any of you think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

⁹Now indeed, I myself thought that I should do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.