Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Which knew me from the beginning - plainly showing that he received his education, even from early youth, at Jerusalem. See the note at Acts 22:3.
If they would testify, х ean (G1437) theloosin (G2309)] - 'if they were willing to testify;' but this they were not, it being too strong a point in his favour:
That after the most straitest ('the strictest') sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee - the Pharisees were confessedly the strictest of the sects, and he refers to this in order to meet the charge, that as a Hellenistic Jew he had contracted among the Heathen lax ideas of Jewish peculiarities.