• Acts 26:1

    Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

  • Acts 26:2

    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:

  • Acts 26:3

    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.

  • Acts 26:4

    My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

  • Acts 26:5

    Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

  • Acts 26:6

    And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

  • Acts 26:7

    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.

  • Acts 26:8

    Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

  • Acts 26:9

    I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

  • 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 my voice against them.

  • Acts 26:11

    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.

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