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Acts 26
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Text Words Connections Compare Context Current outline context Introduction 1:1–26 Matthias Replaces Judas 1:12–26 Pentecost 2:1–47 Peter Addresses the Crowd 2:14–36 Three Thousand Believe 2:37–41 The Fellowship of Believers 2:42–47 Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade 3:11–26 The Believer’s Prayer 4:23–31 Sharing among Believers 4:32–37 The Apostles before the Sanhedrin 5:24–32 Gamaliel’s Advice 5:33–42 Stephen’s Defense 7:1–53 Moses Narrative 7:20–38 The Rejection and Flight of Moses 7:23–29 The Call of Moses 7:30–38 The Rebellion of Israel 7:39–43 The Tabernacle of the Testimony 7:44–50 The Accused becomes the Accuser 7:51–53 The Stoning of Stephen 7:54–60 Philip’s Ministry 8:4–40 Philip and the Ethiopian 8:26–40 Conversion of Saul of Tarsus 9:1–30 Saul in Jerusalem 9:26–30 The Healing of Aeneas 9:31–35 The Raising of Tabitha 9:36–43 Peter Visits Cornelius 10:24–33 Good News for Gentiles 10:34–43 The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit 10:44–48 The Church at Antioch 11:19–30 Witnesses to the Ends of the Earth 13:1–28:31 In Pisidian Antioch 13:13–52 The Report to the Church at Antioch 14:26–28 The Jerusalem Council 15:1–35 James, the Brother of Jesus, Makes the Ruling 15:13–29 The Letter to the Gentile Believers 15:22–29 The Believers at Antioch Rejoice 15:30–35 Division between Paul and Barnabas 15:36–41 Persecution on the Road 16:16–40 The Conversion of the Jailer 16:25–34 An Official Apology 16:35–40 In Athens 17:16–34 Paul’s Address in the Areopagus 17:22–34 Apollos 18:23–28 In Ephesus 19:1–41 The Riot 19:21–41 Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesians 20:17–38 Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem 21:17–26 Paul Seized at the Temple 21:27–36 Permission to Speak 21:37–40 Paul the Roman Citizen 22:22–30 Paul on Trial 23:1–26:32 Paul Sent to Felix 23:23–35 The Verdict Postposed 24:22–27 Paul before Agrippa 25:23–26:32 Agrippa and Bernice Arrive 25:23–27 Festus Interrupts Paul’s Defense 26:24–32
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Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:
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“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today to defend myself against all the accusations of the Jews,
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especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.
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Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.
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They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
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And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,
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the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.
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Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
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So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.
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I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
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In this pursuit I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
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About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
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We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
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‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
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‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.
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I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
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to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
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So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
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First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.
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For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.
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But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
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that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
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At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
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But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
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For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.
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King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”
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Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
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“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”
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Then the king and the governor rose, along with Bernice and those seated with them.
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On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”
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And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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