World English Bible
""Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.""
— Acts 22:1, World English Bible
“Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.”
“Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. ”
“Paul’s Defense“Brothers and fathers, listen to my defense that I now make to you.””
“Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you.”
“My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.”
“Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.”
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
"I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.