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AC-26:1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak
for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for
himself:
AC-26:2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall
answer
for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof
I am
accused of the Jews:
AC-26:3 Especially [because I know] thee to be expert in all
customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I
beseech
thee to hear me patiently.
AC-26:4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first
among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
AC-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.
AC-26:6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the
promise
made of God unto our fathers:
AC-26:7 Unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly
serving
[God] day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king
Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
AC-26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you,
that
God should raise the dead?
AC-26:9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many
things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
AC-26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the
saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from
the
chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice
against [them].
AC-26:11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and
compelled
[them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I
persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.
AC-26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and
commission from the chief priests,
AC-26:13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from
heaven,
above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them
which journeyed with me.
AC-26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a
voice
speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul,
why
persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against the
pricks.
AC-26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest.
AC-26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared
unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness
both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in
the which I will appear unto thee;
AC-26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and [from] the
Gentiles,
unto whom now I send thee,
AC-26:18 To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness
to
light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may
receive
forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are
sanctified
by faith that is in me.
AC-26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto
the
heavenly vision:
AC-26:20 But showed first unto them of Damascus, and at
Jerusalem,
and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the
Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for
repentance.
AC-26:21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and
went about to kill [me].
AC-26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto
this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other
things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should
come:
AC-26:23 That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be the
first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto
the
people, and to the Gentiles.
AC-26:24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a
loud
voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make
thee
mad.
AC-26:25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak
forth the words of truth and soberness.
AC-26:26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also
I
speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are
hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
AC-26:27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that
thou believest.
AC-26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me
to
be a Christian.
AC-26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but
also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether
such as I am, except these bonds.
AC-26:30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the
governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
AC-26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between
themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of
bonds.
AC-26:32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been
set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
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