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then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defense:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, King Agrippa, I have thought myself blessed, being about to make a defense before you today, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>especially knowing you to be acquainted with all things—both customs and questions—among Jews; for this reason, I implore you to hear me patiently.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth—which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem—all the Jews know, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>knowing me before from the first (if they may be willing to testify), that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>to which our twelve tribes, intently serving night and day, hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, King Agrippa, by the Jews; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>why is it judged incredible with you if God raises the dead?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I indeed, therefore, thought with myself that it was necessary [for me] to do many things against the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>which I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the holy ones in prison, having received the authority from the chief priests; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even to strange cities.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In which things, also, going on to Damascus—with authority and commission from the chief priests— <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>at midday, I saw in the way, O king, out of Heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining around me a light—and those going on with me; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? [It is] hard for you to kick against goads! <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I said, Who are You, Lord? And He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>but rise, and stand on your feet, for this I appeared to you, to appoint you an officer and a witness both of the things you saw, and of the things [in which] I will appear to you, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom I now send you, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of Satan to God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified by faith that [is] toward Me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>After which, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, also to all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to convert, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of conversion; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>because of these things the Jews—having caught me in the temple—were endeavoring to kill [me]. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Having obtained, therefore, help from God, until this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spoke of as about to come, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a resurrection from the dead, He is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.”<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he thus making a defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “You are mad, Paul; much learning turns you mad!” <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he says, “I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness I speak forth the sayings; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>for the king knows concerning these things, before whom I also speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing has not been done in a corner; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>do you believe, King Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that you believe!” <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Agrippa said to Paul, “In [so] little you persuade me to become a Christian?” <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Paul said, “I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only you, but also all those hearing me today, to become such as I also am—except these bonds.”<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them, <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and having withdrawn, they were speaking to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds”; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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