5. since they have known about me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.
6. And now I am standing trial for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers;
7. the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews.
8. Why is it considered incredible among you people if God does raise the dead?
9. "So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10. And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.