They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict confor
We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader
as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Da
I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I beli
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a