geneva - Acts:26

geneva@Acts:26:1 @ Then Agrippa sayd vnto Paul, Thou art permitted to speake for thy selfe. So Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himselfe.

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geneva@Acts:26:3 @ Chiefly, because thou hast knowledge of all customes, and questions which are among the Iewes: wherefore I beseech thee, to heare me patiently.

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geneva@Acts:26:5 @ Which (note:)That I was, and where, and how I lived.(:note) knew me from That my parents were Pharisees. the beginning, if they would testify, that after the The sect of the Pharisees was the most exquisite amongst all the sects of the Jews, for it was better than all the rest. most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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geneva@Acts:26:7 @ Whereunto our twelue tribes instantly seruing God day and night, hope to come: for the which hopes sake, O King Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.

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geneva@Acts:26:9 @ I also verely thought in my selfe, that I ought to doe many contrarie things against the Name of Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@Acts:26:10 @ Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave (note:)I consented to and allowed their actions: for he was not a judge.(:note) my voice against [them].

geneva@Acts:26:11 @ And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and (note:)By extreme punishment.(:note) compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.

geneva@Acts:26:12 @ At which time, euen as I went to Damascus with authoritie, and commission from the hie Priests,

geneva@Acts:26:13 @ At midday, O King, I sawe in the way a light from heauen, passing the brightnes of the sunne, shine round about mee, and them which went with me.

geneva@Acts:26:14 @ So when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voyce speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against pricks.

geneva@Acts:26:15 @ Then I sayd, Who art thou, Lord? And he sayd, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.

geneva@Acts:26:16 @ But rise and stand vp on thy feete: for I haue appeared vnto thee for this purpose, to appoint thee a minister and a witnesse, both of the things which thou hast seene, and of the things in the which I will appeare vnto thee,

geneva@Acts:26:17 @ Deliuering thee from this people, and from the Gentiles, vnto whom now I send thee,

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geneva@Acts:26:20 @ But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, & throughout all the coasts of Iudea, & then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and doe workes worthy amendement of life.

geneva@Acts:26:21 @ For this cause the Iewes caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me.

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geneva@Acts:26:23 @ That Christ should (note:)That Christ would not be such a king as the Jews dreamed of, but one appointed to bear our miseries, and the punishment of our sins.(:note) suffer, [and] that he should be the The first of those who are raised from the dead. first that should rise from the dead, and should shew Life, yea and that a most blessed life which will be endless: and this is set against darkness, which almost in all languages sometimes signifies death, and sometimes misery and calamity. light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

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geneva@Acts:26:25 @ But he said, I am not mad, O noble Festus, but I speake the wordes of trueth and sobernes.

geneva@Acts:26:26 @ For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a (note:)Secretly and privately.(:note) corner.

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geneva@Acts:26:28 @ Then Agrippa said vnto Paul, Almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian.

geneva@Acts:26:29 @ And Paul said, (note:)I would to God that not only almost, but thoroughly and altogether, both you and all that hear me this day, might be made as I am, only except for my bonds.(:note) I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

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geneva@Acts:26:31 @ And when they were gone apart, they talked betweene themselues, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death, nor of bonds.

geneva@Acts:26:32 @ Then sayd Agrippa vnto Festus, This man might haue bene loosed, if hee had not appealed vnto Cesar.