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And for this hope, O King, I am being accused by Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Why is it considered unbelievable among all of you if God does raise the dead? <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And this is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>foreign cities. <p class="hdg">Paul Tells of His Conversion</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Hebrew language, <span class="red">‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, <span class="red">‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">But rise up and stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness not only to the things which you have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">rescuing you from the <i>Jewish</i> people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’</span> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but <i>kept</i> declaring both to those of Damascus first, and <i>also</i> at Jerusalem and <i>then</i> throughout all the region of Judea, and <i>even</i> to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, practicing deeds appropriate to repentance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For this reason <i>some</i> Jews seized me in the temple and were trying to put me to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore, having obtained help from God to this day, I stand here bearing witness both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Christ was <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>to suffer, <i>and</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>that as first of the resurrection from the dead, He was going to proclaim light both to the <i>Jewish</i> people and to the Gentiles.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now while <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind! <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Great learning is driving you out of your mind.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>of sober truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For the king <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>knows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>corner. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But Agrippa <i>replied</i> to Paul, “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>In <i>such</i> short time <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>are you persuading me to become a Christian?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Paul <i>said</i>, “I would pray to God, that whether <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in a short or long time, not only you, but also all who hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these chains.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the king stood up and the governor and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and when they had gone aside, they <i>began</i> talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>imprisonment.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>because you are especially expert</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>controversial issues</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>also</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>holy ones</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>outlying</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>In which things</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>above the brightness of</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Jewish Aramaic<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> An idiom referring to an animal’s futile resistance to being prodded with goads<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Two early mss <i>seen Me</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>whether</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Messiah<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>subject to suffering</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>whether</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>he</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>The many letters</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Lit <i>of truth and rationality</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>understands</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> A hidden or secret place<br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Or <i>With a little</i><br><span class="fnverse">28</span> Or <i>you are persuading me to become a Christian</i><br><span class="fnverse">29</span> Or <i>with a little or with much</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Lit <i>bonds</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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