1. Agrippa told Paul, “You may now speak for yourself.”Paul stretched out his hand and said:
2. King Agrippa, I am glad for this chance to defend myself before you today on all these charges that my own people have brought against me.
3. You know a lot about our religious customs and the beliefs that divide us. So I ask you to listen patiently to me.
4-5. All the Jews have known me since I was a child. They know what kind of life I have lived in my own country and in Jerusalem. And if they were willing, they could tell you that I was a Pharisee, a member of a group that is stricter than any other.
6. Now I am on trial because I believe the promise God made to our people long ago.