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riversident@Acts:26:1 @ AGRIPPA said to Paul, "You are at liberty to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:

riversident@Acts:26:2 @ "In regard to all of the things of which I am accused by Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am to make my defense to-day before you,

riversident@Acts:26:3 @ since you are especially expert in all Jewish customs and questions. Therefore I pray you to hear me patiently.

riversident@Acts:26:4 @ "My life from boyhood, which was from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, all Jews know.

riversident@Acts:26:5 @ They knew me from long ago, if they were willing to testify, and that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

riversident@Acts:26:6 @ And now I stand to be tried for the hope of the promise which God made to our fathers,

riversident@Acts:26:7 @ to which our twelve tribes devotedly serving God night and day hope to attain. For this hope I am accused by the Jews, O King.

riversident@Acts:26:8 @ "Why do all of you consider it incredible if God raises dead men?

riversident@Acts:26:9 @ I thought with myself that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

riversident@Acts:26:10 @ And I did it in Jerusalem and many holy men I shut up in prison, getting authority from the high priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

riversident@Acts:26:11 @ In all the synagogues and often I punished them and compelled them to say profane words. Being excessively mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

riversident@Acts:26:12 @ "Thus engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and commission from the high priests,

riversident@Acts:26:13 @ about midday, on the road, I saw, O King, a light above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven around me and my companions.

riversident@Acts:26:14 @ We all fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew,

riversident@Acts:26:15 @ I said, 'Who is speaking?' He said,

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riversident@Acts:26:19 @ After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

riversident@Acts:26:20 @ but first to the people in Damascus and then to the people of Jerusalem and through all the land of Judaea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God and do deeds suitable for a change of heart.

riversident@Acts:26:21 @ "For this reason Jews seized me in the Temple courts and tried to kill me.

riversident@Acts:26:22 @ But obtaining help from God I have continued until this day witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would be,

riversident@Acts:26:23 @ that the Christ would suffer and that he first, by rising from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles."

riversident@Acts:26:24 @ While Paul was thus defending himself, Festus said loudly, "You are raving, Paul. Much learning is driving you insane."

riversident@Acts:26:25 @ "I am not insane," he said, "most noble Festus, but am uttering words of truth and soberness.

riversident@Acts:26:26 @ The King knows about this, and to him I speak with perfect frankness, for I am persuaded that not one of these things has escaped his attention, for this has not been done in a corner.

riversident@Acts:26:27 @ King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe them."

riversident@Acts:26:28 @ Agrippa said to Paul, "With little effort you are persuading me to become a Christian."

riversident@Acts:26:29 @ Paul said, "I would to God that whether with little or with much, not only you, but all who hear me this day, would become such as I am \'97 except for these chains."

riversident@Acts:26:30 @ Then the King rose and the Governor and Bernice and those who had been sitting with them,

riversident@Acts:26:31 @ and after withdrawing they said to one another, "This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains."

riversident@Acts:26:32 @ Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar."

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