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