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href="/bsb/acts/26.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/acts/26.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/acts/26.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Some Jews arrested me in the Temple for preaching this, and they tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/acts/26.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/acts/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/acts/26.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />On account of these things the Jews, having seized me being in the temple, were attempting to kill <i>me</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/acts/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill <i>me</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/acts/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill <i>me.</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/acts/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />For these reasons <i>some</i> Jews seized me in the temple and tried to murder me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/acts/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/acts/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“For this reason <i>some</i> Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/acts/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For this reason <i>some</i> Jews seized me in the temple and were trying to put me to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/acts/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Because of this <i>some</i> Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/acts/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and were trying to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/acts/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/acts/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />That is why some men grabbed me in the temple and tried to kill me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/acts/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews took me prisoner in the temple courtyard and tried to murder me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/acts/26.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/acts/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />For this reason the Jewish leaders grabbed me in the Temple and kept trying to kill me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/acts/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/acts/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/acts/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For this reason Jews seized me when I was in the temple, and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/26.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />"It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/acts/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />because of these things the Jews—having caught me in the temple—were endeavoring to kill [me].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/acts/26.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />On account of these things the Jews, having seized me being in the temple, were attempting to kill <i>me</i>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/acts/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For these things, me the Jews, having seized in the temple, attempted to kill with their own hands.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For this cause the Jews, when I was in the temple, having apprehended me, went about to kill me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/acts/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />It was for this reason that the Jews, having apprehended me when I was in the temple, attempted to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/acts/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />That is why the Jews seized me [when I was] in the temple and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/acts/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/acts/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For these causes the Jews seized me in the temple, and wanted to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/acts/26.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />“And because of these things, the Jews seized me in The Temple and wanted to kill me.”<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/acts/26.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />For these reasons the Jews seized me in the temple, and endeavored to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/acts/26.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />On account of these things the Jews, taking me while in the temple, endeavored to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/acts/26.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />Because of these things, the Jews seizing me in the temple, attempted to kill me on the spot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/acts/26.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />for such a conduct the Jews seiz'd upon me in the temple, designing to assassinate me;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/26.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />"It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/acts/26.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />On account of these things, Jews, seizing me in the temple, were attempting to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/acts/26.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />For these <i>things</i> the Jews seized me in the temple, and attempted to kill me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/acts/26-21.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/in5WTRQ9BSQ?start=8746" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/acts/26.htm">Paul's Testimony to Agrippa</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance. <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/1752.htm" title="1752: heneka (Prep) -- Or heneken hen'-ek-en or heineken hi'-nek-en; of uncertain affinity; on account of.">For this reason</a> <a href="/greek/3778.htm" title="3778: toutōn (DPro-GNP) -- This; he, she, it. "></a> <a href="/greek/2453.htm" title="2453: Ioudaioi (Adj-NMP) -- Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.">the Jews</a> <a href="/greek/4815.htm" title="4815: syllabomenoi (V-APM-NMP) -- From sun and lambano; to clasp, i.e. Seize; specially, to conceive; by implication, to aid.">seized</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: me (PPro-A1S) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">me</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: onta (V-PPA-AMS) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist."></a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tō (Art-DNS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/2411.htm" title="2411: hierō (N-DNS) -- Neuter of hieros; a sacred place, i.e. The entire precincts of the Temple.">temple courts</a> <a href="/greek/3987.htm" title="3987: epeirōnto (V-IIM/P-3P) -- Mid: I try, attempt, endeavor. From peira; to test, i.e. to attempt.">and tried</a> <a href="/greek/1315.htm" title="1315: diacheirisasthai (V-ANM) -- From dia and a derivative of cheir; to handle thoroughly, i.e. Lay violent hands upon.">to kill me.</a> </span> <span class="reftext">22</span>But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/21-30.htm">Acts 21:30-31</a></span><br />The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. / While they were trying to kill him, the commander of the Roman regiment received a report that all Jerusalem was in turmoil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/22-22.htm">Acts 22:22-23</a></span><br />The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!” / As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/23-12.htm">Acts 23:12-15</a></span><br />When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul. / More than forty of them were involved in this plot. / They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/24-5.htm">Acts 24:5-6</a></span><br />We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, / and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/25-2.htm">Acts 25:2-3</a></span><br />where the chief priests and Jewish leaders presented their case against Paul. They urged Festus / to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-18.htm">John 15:18-20</a></span><br />If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. / If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. / Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/16-2.htm">John 16:2-3</a></span><br />They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. / They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm">2 Corinthians 11:23-26</a></span><br />Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. / Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. / Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-11.htm">2 Timothy 3:11-12</a></span><br />my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. / Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/10-17.htm">Matthew 10:17-18</a></span><br />But beware of men, for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues. / On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-34.htm">Matthew 23:34</a></span><br />Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-12.htm">Luke 21:12</a></span><br />But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/2-14.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:14-16</a></span><br />For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews, / who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, / hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/15-31.htm">Romans 15:31</a></span><br />Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/11-19.htm">Jeremiah 11:19</a></span><br />For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.</p><p class="hdg">the Jews.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/21-30.htm">Acts 21:30,31</a></b></br> And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/22-22.htm">Acts 22:22</a></b></br> And they gave him audience unto this word, and <i>then</i> lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a <i>fellow</i> from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/23-12.htm">Acts 23:12-15</a></b></br> And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/acts/25-26.htm">Account</a> <a href="/acts/24-6.htm">Assayed</a> <a href="/acts/16-7.htm">Attempt</a> <a href="/acts/24-6.htm">Attempted</a> <a href="/acts/19-29.htm">Caught</a> <a href="/acts/26-1.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/luke/17-1.htm">Causes</a> <a href="/acts/24-18.htm">Courts</a> <a href="/acts/26-10.htm">Death</a> <a href="/acts/8-3.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/acts/24-7.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/acts/26-7.htm">Jews</a> <a href="/acts/25-3.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/acts/25-9.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/acts/26-3.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/acts/24-6.htm">Seized</a> <a href="/acts/25-8.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/acts/26-11.htm">Tried</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/acts/28-20.htm">Account</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/4-34.htm">Assayed</a> <a href="/romans/9-16.htm">Attempt</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-29.htm">Attempted</a> <a href="/acts/27-15.htm">Caught</a> <a href="/acts/26-31.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/romans/8-28.htm">Causes</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-2.htm">Courts</a> <a href="/acts/26-31.htm">Death</a> <a href="/romans/14-15.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/acts/27-19.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/acts/28-17.htm">Jews</a> <a href="/acts/27-42.htm">Kill</a> <a href="/acts/27-17.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/acts/26-23.htm">Reason</a> <a href="/acts/28-3.htm">Seized</a> <a href="/romans/9-4.htm">Temple</a> <a href="/acts/27-39.htm">Tried</a><div class="vheading2">Acts 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/26-1.htm">Paul, in the presence of Agrippa, declares his life from his childhood;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/26-12.htm">and how miraculously he was converted, and called to his apostleship.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/26-24.htm">Festus charges him with being insane, whereunto he answers modestly.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">28. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/26-28.htm">Agrippa is almost persuaded to be a Christian.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">31. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/acts/26-31.htm">The whole company pronounces him innocent.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Paul has been sharing his testimony and the vision he received from Jesus Christ. The "reason" is his preaching of the Gospel, which was seen as controversial and threatening to Jewish religious leaders.<p><b>the Jews</b><br>This term refers to the Jewish religious authorities and leaders who opposed Paul's message. Historically, Paul was a Pharisee and well-versed in Jewish law, which made his conversion and subsequent preaching particularly contentious. The opposition from the Jewish leaders is a recurring theme in Acts, highlighting the tension between early Christians and traditional Jewish beliefs.<p><b>seized me</b><br>Paul's arrest was a result of his preaching, which was perceived as blasphemous and a threat to the Jewish faith. This act of seizing reflects the legal and religious authority the Jewish leaders held in Jerusalem. It also demonstrates the lengths to which they would go to protect their traditions and power.<p><b>in the temple courts</b><br>The temple in Jerusalem was the center of Jewish worship and a symbol of their religious identity. The temple courts were areas where teaching and discussions often took place. Paul's presence and preaching in this sacred space would have been seen as provocative, especially given his message about Jesus as the Messiah.<p><b>and tried to kill me</b><br>This reflects the severity of the opposition Paul faced. The attempt on his life underscores the intense hostility towards the message of Jesus Christ and the perceived threat it posed to Jewish religious authority. This echoes other instances in Acts where early Christians faced persecution, such as Stephen's martyrdom in <a href="/acts/7.htm">Acts 7</a>. It also fulfills Jesus' prophecy that His followers would face persecution (<a href="/john/15-20.htm">John 15:20</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul.htm">Paul (Saul of Tarsus)</a></b><br>The apostle who is giving his defense before King Agrippa. Formerly a persecutor of Christians, Paul became a fervent follower of Christ and a missionary to the Gentiles.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_jews.htm">The Jews</a></b><br>Referring to the Jewish leaders and people who opposed Paul's message about Jesus being the Messiah. They saw his teachings as a threat to their religious traditions and authority.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_temple_courts.htm">The Temple Courts</a></b><br>The location in Jerusalem where Paul was seized. The temple was the center of Jewish worship and a place of significant religious and cultural importance.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/k/king_agrippa.htm">King Agrippa</a></b><br>Herod Agrippa II, the ruler before whom Paul is making his defense. He was knowledgeable about Jewish customs and controversies.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/paul's_arrest.htm">Paul's Arrest</a></b><br>The event where Paul was seized by the Jews, leading to his series of trials and eventual appeal to Caesar.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/p/perseverance_in_faith.htm">Perseverance in Faith</a></b><br>Paul’s experience teaches us the importance of standing firm in our faith, even when faced with opposition or persecution.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_opposition.htm">Understanding Opposition</a></b><br>Recognize that opposition can often arise from misunderstanding or fear of change, as seen in the Jewish leaders' reaction to Paul’s message.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_trials.htm">God’s Sovereignty in Trials</a></b><br>Trust that God can use difficult circumstances for His purposes, as He used Paul’s arrest to spread the Gospel to new audiences, including Roman officials.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/courage_in_witnessing.htm">Courage in Witnessing</a></b><br>Be encouraged to share your faith boldly, knowing that God is with you, just as He was with Paul during his trials.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_testimony.htm">The Role of Testimony</a></b><br>Paul’s defense is a powerful reminder of the impact of personal testimony in witnessing to others about Christ.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_acts_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Acts 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_did_paul_do_between_journeys_3_and_4.htm">What did Paul do between his third and fourth journeys?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_paul's_ritual_conflict_with_faith_alone.htm">Acts 21:17-26 - Does Paul's participation in Jewish purification rituals conflict with the New Testament teaching on salvation by faith alone?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/did_jesus_cleanse_the_temple_same_day.htm">Did Jesus cleanse the temple the same day he entered Jerusalem? Yes (Matthew 21:12) or No, he waited until the next day (Mark 11:1-17)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_paul's_temple_vision.htm">Acts 22:17-21 - Are there historical or archaeological records supporting Paul's supposed vision in the temple?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21) <span class= "bld">For these causes . . .</span>--Better, perhaps, <span class= "ital">on account of these things.</span> With this brief touch, avoiding any elaborate vindication of his own character, St. Paul indicates the real cause of the hostility of the Jews. The one unpardonable sin, in their eyes, was that he taught the Gentiles that they might claim every gift and grace which had once been looked on as the privilege and prerogative of Israel. The historical precedence of the Jew remained (see Notes on <a href="/acts/13-46.htm" title="Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, see, we turn to the Gentiles.">Acts 13:46</a>; <a href="/context/romans/3-1.htm" title="What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?">Romans 3:1-2</a>), but in all essential points they were placed on a footing of equality.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/26.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 21.</span> - This <span class="accented">cause</span> for <span class="accented">these causes</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">seized</span> for <span class="accented">caught</span>, A.V.; <span class="accented">essayed</span> for <span class="accented">went about</span>, A.V. <span class="cmt_word">For this cause</span>. Here again is a most telling statement. "I have spent my life in trying to persuade men to repent and turn to God, and for doing so the Jews seek to kill me. Can this be right? Will not you, O King Agrippa, protect me from such an unjust requital?" <span class="cmt_word">To kill me</span>; <span class="greek">διαχειρίσασθαι</span>, here and in <a href="/acts/5-30.htm">Acts 5:30</a> only in the New Testament; not in the LXX., but in Polybius, and in Hippocrates and Galen, of surgical operations. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/acts/26-21.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">For this reason</span><br /><span class="grk">ἕνεκα</span> <span class="translit">(heneka)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1752.htm">Strong's 1752: </a> </span><span class="str2">Or heneken hen'-ek-en or heineken hi'-nek-en; of uncertain affinity; on account of.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Jews</span><br /><span class="grk">Ἰουδαῖοι</span> <span class="translit">(Ioudaioi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2453.htm">Strong's 2453: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seized</span><br /><span class="grk">συλλαβόμενοι</span> <span class="translit">(syllabomenoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4815.htm">Strong's 4815: </a> </span><span class="str2">From sun and lambano; to clasp, i.e. Seize; specially, to conceive; by implication, to aid.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">me</span><br /><span class="grk">με</span> <span class="translit">(me)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> </span><span class="str2">I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the</span><br /><span class="grk">τῷ</span> <span class="translit">(tō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Dative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">temple courts</span><br /><span class="grk">ἱερῷ</span> <span class="translit">(hierō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2411.htm">Strong's 2411: </a> </span><span class="str2">Neuter of hieros; a sacred place, i.e. The entire precincts of the Temple.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[and] tried</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐπειρῶντο</span> <span class="translit">(epeirōnto)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3987.htm">Strong's 3987: </a> </span><span class="str2">Mid: I try, attempt, endeavor. From peira; to test, i.e. to attempt.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to kill [me].</span><br /><span class="grk">διαχειρίσασθαι</span> <span class="translit">(diacheirisasthai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Infinitive Middle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1315.htm">Strong's 1315: </a> </span><span class="str2">From dia and a derivative of cheir; to handle thoroughly, i.e. Lay violent hands upon.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/acts/26-21.htm">Acts 26:21 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/acts/26-21.htm">NT Apostles: Acts 26:21 For this reason the Jews seized me (Acts of the Apostles Ac) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/acts/26-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Acts 26:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Acts 26:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/acts/26-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Acts 26:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Acts 26:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>