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| Acts 26:1 | Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. | And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying: | Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak about yourself." So Paul, with outstretched arm, proceeded to make his defence. |
| Acts 26:2 | "I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews, | 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: | "As regards all the accusations brought against me by the Jews," he said, "I think myself fortunate, King Agrippa, in being about to defend myself to-day before you, |
| Acts 26:3 | especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently. | 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. | who are so familiar with all the customs and speculations that prevail among the Jews; and for this reason, I pray you, give me a patient hearing. |
| Acts 26:4 | "Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem; | 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; | "The kind of life I have lived from my youth upwards, as exemplified in my early days among my nation and in Jerusalem, is known to all the Jews. |
| Acts 26:5 | having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. | 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. | For they all know me of old if they would but testify to the fact how, being an adherent of the strictest sect of our religion, my life was that of a Pharisee. |
| Acts 26:6 | Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, | And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers; | And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers |
| Acts 26:7 | which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa! | 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! | the promise which our twelve tribes, worshipping day and night with intense devotedness, hope to have made good to them. It is on the subject of this hope, Sir, that I am accused by the Jews. |
| Acts 26:8 | Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? | Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again? | Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God raises the dead to life? |
| Acts 26:9 | "I most assuredly thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. | 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. | "I myself, however, thought it a duty to do many things in hostility to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene. |
| Acts 26:10 | This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. | 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. | And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death I gave my vote against them. |
| Acts 26:11 | Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities. | 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. | In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased them even to foreign towns. |
| Acts 26:12 | "Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, | Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests, | "While thus engaged, I was travelling one day to Damascus armed with authority and a commission from the High Priests, |
| Acts 26:13 | at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me. | In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me. | and on the journey, at noon, Sir, I saw a light from Heaven brighter than the brightness of the sun shining around me and around those who were travelling with me. |
| Acts 26:14 | When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goad.' | And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you. | We all fell to the ground; and I heard a voice which said to me in Hebrew, "`Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? You are finding it painful to kick against the ox-goad.' |
| Acts 26:15 | I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you persecute. | And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking. | "`Who art Thou, Lord?' I asked. "`I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,' the Lord replied. |
| Acts 26:16 | But arise, and stand on your feet, for to this end have I appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you; | But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; | `But rise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you My servant and My witness both as to the things you have already seen and as to those in which I will appear to you. |
| Acts 26:17 | delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, | And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, | I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you to open their eyes, |
| Acts 26:18 | to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' | To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me. | that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.' |
| Acts 26:19 | "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, | So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven; | "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; |
| Acts 26:20 | but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. | But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart. | but I proceeded to preach first to the people in Damascus, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God, and live lives consistent with such repentance. |
| Acts 26:21 | For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me. | For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death. | "It was on this account that the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me. |
| Acts 26:22 | Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come, | And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about; | Having, however, obtained the help which is from God, I have stood firm until now, and have solemnly exhorted rich and poor alike, saying nothing except what the Prophets and Moses predicted as soon to happen, |
| Acts 26:23 | how the Christ must suffer, and how he first by the resurrection of the dead should proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles." | That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles. | since the Christ was to be a suffering Christ, and by coming back from the dead was then to be the first to proclaim a message of light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles." |
| Acts 26:24 | As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!" | And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced. | As Paul thus made his defence, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, "You are raving mad, Paul; and great learning is driving you mad." |
| Acts 26:25 | But he said, "I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but speak forth words of truth and soberness. | Then Paul said, I am not off my head, most noble Festus, but my words are true and wise. | "I am not mad, most noble Festus," replied Paul; "I am speaking words of sober truth. |
| Acts 26:26 | For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner. | For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret. | For the King, to whom I speak freely, knows about these matters. I am not to be persuaded that any detail of them has escaped his notice; for these things have not been done in a corner. |
| Acts 26:27 | King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe." | King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have. | King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? I know that you believe them." |
| Acts 26:28 | Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?" | And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian. | Agrippa answered, "In brief, you are doing your best to persuade me to become a Christian." |
| Acts 26:29 | Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds." | And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains. | "My prayer to God, whether briefly or at length," replied Paul, "would be that not only you but all who are my hearers to-day, might become such as I am except these chains." |
| Acts 26:30 | The king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them. | And the king and the ruler and Bernice and those who were seated with them got up; | So the King rose, and the Governor, and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them; |
| Acts 26:31 | When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds." | And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison. | and, having withdrawn, they talked to one another and said, "This man is doing nothing for which he deserves death or imprisonment." |
| Acts 26:32 | Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar." | And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar. | And Agrippa said to Festus, "He might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar." |
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