jub - Acts:25:13-26:32

jub@Acts:25:13 @ And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.

jub@Acts:25:14 @ And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,

jub@Acts:25:15 @ about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the princes of the priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring [to have] vengeance against him.

jub@Acts:25:16 @ To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before the one who is accused is face to face with his accusers and is given license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

jub@Acts:25:17 @ Therefore, when they were come here, without any delay on the next day I sat on the judgement seat and commanded the man to be brought forth.

jub@Acts:25:18 @ Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of such things as I supposed,

jub@Acts:25:19 @ but had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

jub@Acts:25:20 @ And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked [him] whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.

jub@Acts:25:21 @ But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.

jub@Acts:25:22 @ Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

jub@Acts:25:23 @ And the next day when Agrippa was come and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the tribunals and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought forth.

jub@Acts:25:24 @ Then Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and [also] here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

jub@Acts:25:25 @ But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

jub@Acts:25:26 @ Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.

jub@Acts:25:27 @ For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the crimes [laid] against him.:

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

jub@Acts:26:2 @ I esteem myself blessed, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee concerning all the things of which I am accused of the Jews,

jub@Acts:26:3 @ especially [because I know] thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; therefore, I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

jub@Acts:26:4 @ My manner of life from my youth, which from the beginning was among my own nation at Jerusalem, is known of all the Jews,

jub@Acts:26:5 @ who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most perfect sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

jub@Acts:26:6 @ And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;

jub@Acts:26:7 @ unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, constantly serving [God] day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

jub@Acts:26:8 @ Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?

jub@Acts:26:9 @ I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

jub@Acts:26:10 @ Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against [them].

jub@Acts:26:11 @ And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto foreign cities.

jub@Acts:26:12 @ Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the princes of the priests,

jub@Acts:26:13 @ at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.

jub@Acts:26:14 @ 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 dost thou persecute me? [It is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

jub@Acts:26:15 @ And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute.

jub@Acts:26:16 @ 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 which I will appear unto thee;

jub@Acts:26:17 @ delivering thee from the people and [from] the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee

jub@Acts:26:18 @ to open their eyes [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.

jub@Acts:26:19 @ Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision,

jub@Acts:26:20 @ but I announced first unto those 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, doing works worthy of repentance.

jub@Acts:26:21 @ For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple and went about to kill [me].

jub@Acts:26:22 @ Having, therefore, obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said should come:

jub@Acts:26:23 @ that the Christ should suffer [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead and should show light unto this people and to the Gentiles.

jub@Acts:26:24 @ And as he spoke these things and [answered] for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

jub@Acts:26:25 @ But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth words of truth and temperance.

jub@Acts:26:26 @ For the king knows of these things, before whom I also speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in a corner.

jub@Acts:26:27 @ King Agrippa, dost thou believe the prophets? I know that thou believest.

jub@Acts:26:28 @ Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

jub@Acts:26:29 @ And Paul said, I desire before God that by little or by much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.

jub@Acts:26:30 @ And when he had said these things, the king rose up and the governor and Bernice and those that sat with them;

jub@Acts:26:31 @ and when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

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