Paul is being persecuted by the Jewish leaders, by the religious leaders of that day. Paul shows them that he had been one of them—he had been a Pharisee. One of the reasons he has so much sympathy for them and is so loving toward them is that he knows exactly how they feel. He is giving them his background because he wants to win them for Christ. Paul had a tremendous background. Tarsus was actually the center of Greek learning of that day. The finest Greek university in Paul’s day was in Tarsus,