But when Paul perceived that the one part were TZdukim, and the other Prushim, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Parush, the son of a Parush: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the Torah of the fathers, and was zealous toward Elohim, as ye all are this day.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzratim:
As also kohen hagadol doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Dammasek, to bring them which were there bound unto Yerushalayim, for to be punished.
But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the Elohim of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Torah and in the prophets:
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Prushim which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Torah of Moshe.