Acts 26

About Acts Acts tells how the Holy Spirit came and the good news about Jesus spread from Jerusalem to Rome.

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:SelectedActs 26:1Ask

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:SelectedActs 26:2Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:3Ask

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;SelectedActs 26:4Ask

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.SelectedActs 26:5Ask

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:SelectedActs 26:6Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:7Ask

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?SelectedActs 26:8Ask

I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.SelectedActs 26:9Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:10Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:11Ask

Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,SelectedActs 26:12Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:13Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:14Ask

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.SelectedActs 26:15Ask

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;SelectedActs 26:16Ask

Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,SelectedActs 26:17Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:18Ask

Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:SelectedActs 26:19Ask

But shewed 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.SelectedActs 26:20Ask

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.SelectedActs 26:21Ask

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:SelectedActs 26:22Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:23Ask

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.SelectedActs 26:24Ask

But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.SelectedActs 26:25Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:26Ask

King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.SelectedActs 26:27Ask

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.SelectedActs 26:28Ask

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.SelectedActs 26:29Ask

And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:SelectedActs 26:30Ask

And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.SelectedActs 26:31Ask

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.SelectedActs 26:32Ask

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