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Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched out his hand and answered for himself:
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"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews,
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especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which have to do with the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
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My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know.
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They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers.