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“I am fortunate, King Agrippa,” he began, “to be able to present my answer before you, for I know you are an expert on Jewish laws and customs. Now please listen patiently!

“As the Jews are well aware, I was given a thorough Jewish training from my earliest childhood in Tarsus[a] and later at Jerusalem, and I lived accordingly.

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  1. Acts 26:4 my earliest childhood in Tarsus, literally, “my own nation.”

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

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