1. “Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defence before you now.”
2. And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Heḇrew language, they kept greater silence. And he said:
3. “I am indeed a Yehuḏite, having been born in Tarsos of Kilikia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamli’ĕl, having been instructed according to the exactness of the Torah of our fathers, being ardent for Elohim, as you all are today,