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*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the] exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day;

And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.

But Paul, knowing that the one part [of them] were of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, cried out in the council, Brethren, *I* am a Pharisee, son of Pharisees: *I* am judged concerning the hope and resurrection of [the] dead.

[other] than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching [the] resurrection of [the] dead.

But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.

I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews,

to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of [the] Jews.

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, *I* am Jesus whom *thou* persecutest:

But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness;

for the king is informed about these things, to whom also I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a corner.

And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.

For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,

I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent:

so, as far as depends on me, am I ready to announce the glad tidings to you also who [are] in Rome.

For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek:

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?

For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin.

O wretched man that I [am]! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of [the] seed of Abraham, of [the] tribe of Benjamin.