\subsection{Acts 26}
\VS{1} So Agrippa said to Paul: He permits you to be speaking in your own behalf. 
Then Paul having stretched out his hand made [his] defense:
\VS{2} Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I 
consider myself blessed [about] to be making my defense today before you, 
\VS{3} 
you being especially knowledgeable of all the customs and questions of the 
Jews. Therefore I ask you to patiently hear me. 
\VS{4} Indeed therefore all 
Judea knows my manner of life from youth which came to pass from the 
beginning in my nation and in Jerusalem, 
\VS{5} having foreknown me for [a] 
long time, if they want to testify, that according to the most 
careful\footnote{or ``exact'', ``careful''} sect [of your] religion I zoe-lived\fnZoe{} [as a] Pharisee. 
\VS{6} And now upon [the] hope of the promise which came to pass to our 
fathers have I stood being judged, 
\VS{7} to which, in earnestness 
ministering day and night, I hope our twelve tribes to attain, concerning 
which hope I am accused by the Jews, O King. 
\VS{8} Why is it judged by you 
unbelievable that God raises the dead? 
\VS{9} I indeed therefore supposed I 
must against the name of Jesus the Nazarene practice many opposing [things], 
\VS{10} 
which I also did in Jerusalem, and many of [their] holy [ones] I shut in prison, having 
received authority from the chief priests, and when they were being done 
away with I cast [my] vote against [them]. 
\VS{11} And according to every synagogue 
often punishing them I was forcing them to be slandering [God], and being 
exceedingly enraged against them, I was persecuting them to indeed outer 
cities. 
\VS{12} Whereupon going to Damascus with authority and charge of the 
chief priest, 
\VS{13} during midday along the road I saw, O King, from 
heaven, above the radiance of the sun, [a] light shining around me and those 
going with me, 
\VS{14} and when all of us fell to the ground\fnGe{} I heard [a] voice 
saying to me in the Hebrew language: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? 
[It is] hard for you to be kicking against the goad\footnote{a sharpened stick used 
to prod cattle}. 
\VS{15} So I said: Who are you, Lord? So the Lord said to 
me: I am Jesus whom you persecute. 
\VS{16} But arise and stand on your feet, 
for to this have I been seen by you, to appoint you officer and witness of 
those [things] you have seen and of those [things in which] I will be seen by you. 
\VS{17} delivering 
you from the people and from the nations, to which I send you 
\VS{18} to open their eyes, having turned [them] from darkness to light, 
and [from] authority of Satan to God, that they receive allowance of 
sins and [a] portion with those having been made holy by faith in me. 
\VS{19} From whence, King Agrippa, I 
did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision, 
\VS{20} but to those in 
Damascus first and [those in] Jerusalem, and every region of Judea, and to the 
nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}, I was proclaiming [that they should] be repenting and be turning to God, practicing works worthy of repentance. 
\VS{21} On account of 
these [things the] Jews having seized me were trying to do [me] violence. 
\VS{22} Therefore 
having attained assistances from God until this day, I have stood testifying 
to small and to great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses 
said is [about] to come to pass, 
\VS{23} if the Christ [is] subject to suffering, if 
[he is the] first [one] from the resurrection of [the] dead, [then] light is [about] to be proclaimed to both 
the people and the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}. 
\VS{24} So when he 
made his defense with these [words], Phestus said with [a] great voice: You are 
insane, Paul. Much learning turns you to insanity. 
\VS{25} But Paul said, I 
am not insane, most excellent Phestus, but [rather] I boldly declare words of truth 
and rationality. 
\VS{26} For the king knows concerning these [things], to whom I 
also speak boldly proclaiming, for I am persuaded \negd{nothing} 
escapes his notice, for this was not done in [a] corner. 
\VS{27} Do you 
believe, King Agrippa, in the prophets? I know that you believe. 
\VS{28} So 
Agrippa [said] to Paul: In a short [time] you persuade me to become a Christian. 
\VS{29} 
But Paul [said]: I would pray to God both in [a] short [time] and in [a] great [time] not only you 
but also all those having heard me today to become such like I also am, 
except for these bonds. 
\VS{30} So the king arose, and the ruler and Bernice 
and those sitting with them, 
\VS{31} and having withdrawn they were speaking 
to one another saying that: Nothing worthy of death or bonds does this man 
practice. 
\VS{32} So Agrippa said to Phestus: This man was able to be 
released except [that] he appealed to Caesar.
