Acts 22:2-4

International Standard Version

² When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

³ “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way, even executing people,^[a] and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,