3. you being most of all an expert, knowing of all practices and questions which have to do with the Yehuḏim. So, please hear me patiently.
4. “Truly, then, all the Yehuḏim know my way of life from youth, which I led from the beginning among my own nation at Yerushalayim,
5. since they have known me from the first, if they wish to witness, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our observance.
6. “And now I stand and am judged for the expectation of the promise made by Elohim to our fathers,
7. to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving Elohim night and day, expect to attain. Concerning this expectation, O Sovereign Agrippa, I am accused by the Yehuḏim.