“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.
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