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me, both at Jerusalem, and
also
here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
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But when I
found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus,
I have determined to send him.
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Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore
I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after
examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
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For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a
prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes
laid
against him.
CHAPTER 26
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the
hand, and answered for himself:
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I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for
myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
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Especially
because I know
thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore
I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
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My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first
among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
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Which knew me from the beginning, if
they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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And now I
stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
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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.
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Why should it be thought a thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the dead?
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I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things
contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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And I said, Who art thou,
Lord? And he said,
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
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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;
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Delivering thee
from the people, and
from
the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
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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.
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Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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But shewed first
unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and
then
to the
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