But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, That it was necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
I am truly a man who am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
As also the high priest bears me witness, and all the order of the elders: from whom also I received letters to the Jewish brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem, to be punished.
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: for the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
But this I confess to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
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 Nazarenes: