Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You are [now] permitted to speak on your own behalf.” At that, Paul stretched out his hand [as an orator] and made his defense [as follows]:
“I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, since it is before you that I am to make my defense today regarding all the charges brought against me by the Jews,
“So then, all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation [the Jewish people], and in Jerusalem.
“So then, I [once] thought to myself that it was my duty to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
“While so engaged, as I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and commission and full power of the chief priests,
While Paul was making this defense, Festus said loudly, “Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great education is turning you toward madness.”
Then the king stood up, and [with him] the governor and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them;
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