PAUL: RAISED AN ORTHODOX JEW

Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Acts 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers and was zealous toward G-d, as ye all are this day.

Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.