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ylt@Acts:26:1 @And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:

ylt@Acts:26:2 @'Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

ylt@Acts:26:3 @especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

ylt@Acts:26:4 @'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

ylt@Acts:26:5 @knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

ylt@Acts:26:6 @and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

ylt@Acts:26:7 @to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;

ylt@Acts:26:8 @why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

ylt@Acts:26:9 @'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved [me] many things to do,

ylt@Acts:26:10 @which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

ylt@Acts:26:11 @and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining [them] to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting [them] even unto strange cities.

ylt@Acts:26:12 @'In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --

ylt@Acts:26:13 @at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;

ylt@Acts:26:14 @and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!

ylt@Acts:26:15 @'And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;

ylt@Acts:26:16 @but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things [in which] I will appear to thee,

ylt@Acts:26:17 @delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,

ylt@Acts:26:18 @to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that [is] toward me.

ylt@Acts:26:19 @'Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

ylt@Acts:26:20 @but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

ylt@Acts:26:21 @because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill [me].

ylt@Acts:26:22 @'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

ylt@Acts:26:23 @that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

ylt@Acts:26:24 @And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, 'Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

ylt@Acts:26:25 @and he saith, 'I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

ylt@Acts:26:26 @for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;

ylt@Acts:26:27 @thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

ylt@Acts:26:28 @And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'

ylt@Acts:26:29 @and Paul said, 'I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.'

ylt@Acts:26:30 @And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,

ylt@Acts:26:31 @and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- 'This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

ylt@Acts:26:32 @and Agrippa said to Festus, 'This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

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