1. `Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --
2. and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --
3. `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.
4. `And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,