3 you being most of all an expert, knowing of all practices and questions which have to do with the Yehuḏim. So, please hear me patiently.
4 “Truly, then, all the Yehuḏim know my way of life from youth, which I led from the beginning among my own nation at Yerushalayim,
5 since they have known me from the first, if they wish to witness, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our observance.
6 “And now I stand and am judged for the expectation of the promise made by Elohim to our fathers,
7 to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving Elohim night and day, expect to attain. Concerning this expectation, O Sovereign Agrippa, I am accused by the Yehuḏim.
8 “Why is it considered ‘unbelievable’ among you if Elohim raises the dead?
9 “Therefore, indeed, I thought within myself that I ought to do much against the Name of יהושע of Natsareth,