2. “King Agrippa! I consider myself fortunate that today I am to defend myself before you from all the things these Jews accuse me of,
3. particularly since you know so well all the Jewish customs and disputes. I ask you, then, to listen to me with patience.
4. “All the Jews know how I have lived ever since I was young. They know how I have spent my whole life, at first in my own country and then in Jerusalem.
5. They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.