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Acts 26
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- 26:1
Then
Agrippa
said
unto
Paul,
Thou art
permitted to
speak
for
thyself.
Then
Paul stretched
forth the
hand, and answered for
himself:
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 26:4
My
manner
of
life
from my
youth,
which
was
at the
first
among
mine own
nation
at
Jerusalem,
know
all the
Jews;
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- 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.
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- 26:6
And
now I
stand and am
judged
for the
hope of the
promise
made
of
God
unto our
fathers:
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- 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.
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- 26:8
Why should it be thought a
thing
incredible
with
you,
that
God should
raise the
dead?
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- 26:9
I
verily
*
thought with
myself, that I
ought to
do many
things
contrary
to the
name of
Jesus of
Nazareth.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 26:12
Whereupon
as I
went
to
Damascus
with
authority
and
commission
from the chief
priests,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 26:15
And
I
said,
Who art
thou,
Lord?
And he
said,
I
am
Jesus
whom
thou
persecutest.
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- 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;
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- 26:17
Delivering
thee
from the
people,
and from the
Gentiles,
unto
whom
now I
send
thee,
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- 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.
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- 26:19
Whereupon, O
king
Agrippa, I
was
not
disobedient unto the
heavenly
vision:
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- 26:20
But
shewed
(5723)
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.
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- 26:21
For these
causes the
Jews
caught
me
in the
temple, and went
about to
kill me.
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- 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:
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- 26:23
That
Christ should
suffer, and
that he should be the
first that should
rise
from the
dead, and
should
shew
light unto the
people,
and to the
Gentiles.
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- 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
*.
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- 26:25
But he
said, I
am
not
mad, most
noble
Festus;
but speak
forth the
words of
truth
and
soberness.
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- 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.
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- 26:27
King
Agrippa, believest
thou the
prophets? I
know
that thou
believest.
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- 26:28
Then
Agrippa
said
unto
Paul,
Almost
thou
persuadest
me to
be a
Christian.
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- 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.
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- 26:30
And when
he
had
thus
spoken, the
king rose
up,
and the
governor,
and
Bernice,
and they that sat
with
them:
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- 26:31
And when they were gone
aside, they
talked
between
themselves,
saying
*,
This
man
doeth
nothing
worthy of
death
or of
bonds.
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- 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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