Having knowledge of me from the first for which knew me from the beginning, A.V.; be willing to for would, A.V.; how that for that, A.V.; straitest for most straitest, A.V. Straitest ( ἀκριβεστάτην); see Acts 22:3; Acts 18:26, etc.
Sect ( αἵρεσις); see Acts 24:14, note. He does not disclaim being still a Pharisee. On the contrary, in the next verse (Acts 24:6) he declares, as he had done in Acts 23:6, that it was for the chief hope of the Pharisees that he was now accused.
He tries to enlist all the good feeling that yet remained among the Jews on his side.