 He says, I was brought up in the context in which goodness was held up to me, righteousness. In fact, he's a lot like somebody that we meet later on in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles, a Pharisee of the Pharisees with a great background and a wonderful education, who was able to say when he wrote to the church in Philippi that when he looked back on his life in terms of living as a religious unbeliever in Jesus,