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1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I will answer for myself this day before you touching all the things of which I am accused of the Jews:
3 Especially [because I know] you to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: therefore I ask you to hear me patiently.
4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, is known to all the Jews;
5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strait sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
7 To which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly serving [God] day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
- HOPE
- HOPE
8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10 Which I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints 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 frequently in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even in 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 those who journeyed with me.
14 And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why are persecuting me? [it is] hard for you to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
16 But rise, and stand upon your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and of those things in which I will appear to you;
17 Delivering you from the people, and [from] the Gentiles, to whom now I am sending you,
18 To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
19 For this reason, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:
20 But declared firstly to those at Damascus, and Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and [then] to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do what is necessary to show their change of heart and mind.
21 Because of these things the Jews caught me in the temple, and set about trying to kill [me].
22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses said should come:
23 That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
24 And as he was defending himself in this way, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are out of your mind; lots of study has made you mad.
25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but I am uttering the [rhema] words of reality and soundness.
- RHEMA - WORD
- RHEMA - WORD
26 For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.
28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, in short, you are persuading me to become a Christian.
29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
31 And when they had moved away, they talked between themselves, saying, This man is doing nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
32 Then Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.