6. Now I am on trial because I believe the promise God made to our people long ago.
7. Day and night our twelve tribes have earnestly served God, waiting for his promised blessings. King Agrippa, because of this hope, the Jewish leaders have brought charges against me.
8. Why should any of you doubt that God raises the dead to life?
9. I once thought that I should do everything I could to oppose Jesus from Nazareth.
10. I did this first in Jerusalem, and with the authority of the chief priests I put many of God's people in jail. I even voted for them to be killed.
11. I often had them punished in our meeting places, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.
12. King Agrippa, one day I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and permission of the chief priests.
13. About midday I saw a light brighter than the sun. It flashed from heaven on me and on everyone travelling with me.