Acts 26:16-26

16 Stand up! I have appeared to you for a reason. I'm appointing you to be a servant and witness of what you have seen and of what I will show you.
17 I will rescue you from the Jewish people and from the non-Jewish people to whom I am sending you.
18 You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God's. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and a share among God's people who are made holy by believing in me.'
19 "At that point I did not disobey the vision I saw from heaven, King Agrippa.
20 Instead, I spread the message that I first told to the [Jewish] people in Damascus and Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea. I spread the same message to non-Jewish people. Both groups were expected to change the way they thought and acted and to turn to God. I told them to do things that prove they had changed their lives.
21 For this reason the Jews took me prisoner in the temple courtyard and tried to murder me.
22 "God has been helping me to this day so that I can stand and testify to important and unimportant people. I tell them only what the prophets and Moses said would happen.
23 They said that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to come back to life and would spread light to Jewish and non-Jewish people."
24 As Paul was defending himself in this way, Festus shouted, "Paul, you're crazy! Too much education is driving you crazy!"
25 Paul replied, "I'm not crazy, Your Excellency Festus. What I'm saying is true and sane.
26 I can easily speak to a king who knows about these things. I'm sure that none of these things has escaped his attention. None of this was done secretly.
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