Acts 22:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

22 Brethren and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make in your presence.

² And when they heard that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they were all the more quiet. And he continued,

³ I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but reared in this city. At the feet of Gamaliel I was educated according to the strictest care in the Law of our fathers, being ardent [even a zealot] for God, as all of you are today.