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And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:
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In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:
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The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.
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All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;
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And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.
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And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;
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For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!
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Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?
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For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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And this I did in Jerusalem: and numbers of the saints I put in prison, having had authority given to me from the chief priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my decision against them.
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And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.