Acts 26:1–9
1Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.↗
2“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things the Jews accuse me of,↗
3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.↗
4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;↗
5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.↗
6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,↗
7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!↗
8Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?↗
9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.↗
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