Acts 26 NKJV

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Acts 26 NKJV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/26.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/26-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NKJV</a> > Acts 26</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/25.htm" title="Acts 25">◄</a> Acts 26 <a href="../acts/27.htm" title="Acts 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/acts/26.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Paul’s Early Life</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Acts-26-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You are permitted to speak for yourself.”</span></p><p><span class="text Acts-26-1">So Paul stretched out his hand and answered for himself: </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, because today I shall answer for myself before you concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which have to do with the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“My manner of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, all the Jews know. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>To this <i>promise</i> our twelve tribes, earnestly serving <i>God</i> night and day, hope to attain. For this hope’s sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against <i>them.</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled <i>them</i> to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted <i>them</i> even to foreign cities.</span></p> <h3> Paul Recounts His Conversion</span></h3><p><span class="text Acts-26-12"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, <span class="woj">‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? <i>It is</i> hard for you to kick against the goads.’</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, <span class="woj">‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woj">But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose,</span> <span class="woj">to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="woj">I will</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span><span class="woj">deliver you from the <i>Jewish</i> people, as well as <i>from</i> the Gentiles,</span> <span class="woj">to whom I</span> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span><span class="woj">now send you,</span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woj">to open their eyes, <i>in order</i></span> <span class="woj">to turn <i>them</i> from darkness to light, and <i>from</i> the power of Satan to God,</span> <span class="woj">that they may receive forgiveness of sins and</span> <span class="woj">an inheritance among those who are</span> <span class="woj">sanctified</span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span> <span class="woj">by faith in Me.’</span></span></p> <h3> Paul’s Post-Conversion Life</span></h3><p><span class="text Acts-26-19"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and <i>then</i> to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill <i>me.</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the <i>Jewish</i> people and to the Gentiles.”</span></p> <h3> Agrippa Parries Paul’s Challenge</span></h3><p><span class="text Acts-26-24"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But he said, “I am not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and reason. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For the king, before whom I also speak freely, knows these things; for I am convinced that none of these things escapes his attention, since this thing was not done in a corner. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do believe.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Paul said, “I would to God that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become both almost and altogether such as I am, except for these chains.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When he had said these things, the king stood up, as well as the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them; </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and when they had gone aside, they talked among themselves, saying, “This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-27833a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Acts 26:9">Acts 26:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>against</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27841b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Acts 26:17">Acts 26:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>rescue</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27841c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Acts 26:17">Acts 26:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU, M omit <i>now</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27842d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Acts 26:18">Acts 26:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>set apart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27849e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Acts 26:25">Acts 26:25</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>out of my mind</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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