2. “I count myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am to defend myself before you today against all the charges made against me by the Jews,
3. especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. And therefore I beg you to listen patiently.
4. My manner of living from my youth, a life spent from the beginning among my people and in Jerusalem, all [the] Jews know.
5. They have known about me from the start, if they are willing to testify, that I have lived my life as a Pharisee, the strictest party of our religion.