3The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
4All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;
5And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.
6And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;
7For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!
8Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?
9For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
