²⁹ “^[a]Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the ^(A)patriarch David that he both ^(B)died and ^(C)was buried, and ^(D)his tomb is ^[b]with us to this day.

¹⁷ “And now, brethren, I know that you acted ^(A)in ignorance, just as your ^(B)rulers did also.

²⁶ “Brethren, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of ^(A)this salvation has been sent.

Paul before the Council

23 Paul, looking intently at ^(A)the ^[a]Council, said, “^(B)Brethren, ^(C)I have ^[b]lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”

¹⁷ After three days ^[a]Paul called together those who were ^(A)the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “^(B)Brethren, ^(C)though I had done nothing against our people or ^(D)the customs of our ^[b]fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

²¹ They said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of ^(A)the brethren come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you.

³ For ^(A)I could ^[a]wish that I myself were ^(B)accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen ^(C)according to the flesh,