7. Our twelve tribes hope to attain to that promise as they fervently worship God day and night; and on account of this hope I am accused by Jews, O king.
8. Why is it thought unbelievable among you that God raises the dead?
9. I myself once thought that I had to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean,
10. and I did so in Jerusalem. I imprisoned many of the holy ones with the authorization I received from the chief priests, and when they were to be put to death I cast my vote against them.
11. Many times, in synagogue after synagogue, I punished them in an attempt to force them to blaspheme; I was so enraged against them that I pursued them even to foreign cities.
12. “On one such occasion I was traveling to Damascus with the authorization and commission of the chief priests.