Acts 26:6

"having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."

Key Reflection

Paul asserts his long-standing commitment to Judaism by declaring he was a Pharisee from the beginning, highlighting his genuine and rigorous adherence to the strictest sect of Jewish religion. This statement underscores both his credibility and the transformation that had occurred in his life, as he now stands before Agrippa II to bear witness to his conversion to Christianity.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 6. And now I stand. I stand before the tribunal. I am arraigned. And am judged. Am tried with reference to being judged. I am undergoing a trial on the point in which all my nation are agreed. For the hope. On account of the hope; or because, in common with my countrymen, I had entertained this hope, and now believe in its fulfillment. Of the promise, etc. See the references in the margin. It is not quite certain whether Paul refers here to the promise of the Messiah, or to the hope of the resurrection of the dead. When he stood before the Jewish sanhedrim, Ac 23:6, he said that he was called in question on account of holding the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.

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