Acts 22:2-4

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² When they heard him speaking in Aramaic they became even quieter.

³ “I am a Jew,” he continued, “and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia. I received my education here, in this city, and I studied at the feet of Gamaliel. I was trained in the strictest interpretations of our ancestral laws, and became zealous for God, just as all of you are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way, right to the point of killing people, and I bound and handed over to prison both men and women—