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Acts 26:4-19
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Acts 26:4-19
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4 “The Jewish people all know the way I have lived ever since I was a child,(A) from the beginning of my life in my own country, and also in Jerusalem. 5 They have known me for a long time(B) and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect(C) of our religion, living as a Pharisee.(D) 6 And now it is because of my hope(E) in what God has promised our ancestors(F) that I am on trial today. 7 This is the promise our twelve tribes(G) are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night.(H) King Agrippa, it is because of this hope that these Jews are accusing me.(I) 8 Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?(J)
9 “I too was convinced(K) that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose(L) the name of Jesus of Nazareth.(M) 10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people(N) in prison,(O) and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.(P) 11 Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished,(Q) and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.
12 “On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 13 About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. 14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice(R) saying to me in Aramaic,[a](S) ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15 “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. 16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet.(T) I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.(U) 17 I will rescue you(V) from your own people and from the Gentiles.(W) I am sending you to them 18 to open their eyes(X) and turn them from darkness to light,(Y) and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins(Z) and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’(AA)
19 “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient(AB) to the vision from heaven.
Footnotes
- Acts 26:14 Or Hebrew
Acts 26:4-19
King James Version
Acts 26:4-19
King James Version
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers:
7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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 my voice against them.
11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
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 them which journeyed with me.
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 persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
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 the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
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 forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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