¹³ It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants,^(A) because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.’

³ He^(A) continued, ‘I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel^(B) according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.^(C)