Acts Chapter 26

• Acts 26:1
  Acts.
• Acts 26:2
  Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
• Acts 26:3
  “I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
• Acts 26:4
  especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
• Acts 26:5
  “Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
• 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.
• Acts 26:7
  Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
• Acts 26:8
  which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
• Acts 26:9
  Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?
• Acts 26:10
  “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Acts 26:11
  I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put t...
• Acts 26:12
  Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign ...
• Acts 26:13
  “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
• Acts 26:14
  at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
• Acts 26:15
  When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you ...
• Acts 26:16
  “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
• Acts 26:17
  But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you ha...
• Acts 26:18
  delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Acts 26:19
  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inher...
• Acts 26:20
  “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
• Acts 26:21
  but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and t...
• Acts 26:22
  For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.
• Acts 26:23
  Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and ...
• Acts 26:24
  how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
• Acts 26:25
  As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
• Acts 26:26
  But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
• Acts 26:27
  For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not bee...
• Acts 26:28
  King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
• Acts 26:29
  Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
• Acts 26:30
  Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for...
• Acts 26:31
  The king rose up with the governor and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
• Acts 26:32
  When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
• Acts 26:33
  Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”