Acts 26:1-11

Paul’s Defense Before Agrippa

1 So ¹Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself. ” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:

2 “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today ²against all the accusations of the Jews,

3 especially because you are familiar with all the ³customs and ⁴controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

4 ⁵“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among ⁶my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

5 They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that ⁷according to the strictest ⁸party of our ⁹religion I have lived as ¹⁰a Pharisee.

6 And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in ¹¹the promise made by God to our fathers,

7 ¹²to which ¹³our twelve tribes hope to ¹⁴attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope ¹⁵I am accused by Jews, O king!

8 Why is it thought ¹⁶incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

9 ¹⁷“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of ¹⁸Jesus of Nazareth.

10 ¹⁹And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority ²⁰from the chief priests, but ²¹when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.

11 And ²²I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them ²³blaspheme, and ²⁴in raging fury against them I ²⁵persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Cross References

• 1. 26:1 See ch. 9:15
• 2. 26:2 ch. 25:7, 19; [ver. 7]
• 3. 26:3 See ch. 6:14
• 4. 26:3 See ch. 18:15
• 5. 26:4 [Gal. 1:13]
• 6. 26:4 ch. 24:17; 28:19
• 7. 26:5 ch. 22:3
• 8. 26:5 See ch. 24:5
• 9. 26:5 James 1:26, 27
• 10. 26:5 ch. 23:6
• 11. 26:6 See ch. 13:32
• 12. 26:7 [ch. 2:33; Heb. 10:36; 11:13, 39]
• 13. 26:7 Matt. 19:28; Luke 22:30; James 1:1; Rev. 21:12; [Ezra 6:17]
• 14. 26:7 Phil. 3:11
• 15. 26:7 ver. 2
• 16. 26:8 [ch. 17:3; 1 Cor. 15:12]
• 17. 26:9 1 Tim. 1:13; [John 16:2]; See ch. 3:17
• 18. 26:9 ch. 22:8
• 19. 26:10 See ch. 8:3
• 20. 26:10 ver. 12; ch. 9:1, 2, 14, 21; 22:4, 5
• 21. 26:10 See ch. 22:20
• 22. 26:11 ch. 22:19
• 23. 26:11 See ch. 13:45
• 24. 26:11 ch. 9:1
• 25. 26:11 ch. 22:5