Verse 3
Acts 26:3
GOD'S WORD Translation
3
especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
Original Language Text
greek
μάλιστα γνώστην ὄντα σε πάντων τῶν κατὰ Ἰουδαίους ⸀ἐθῶν τε καὶ ζητημάτων· διὸ ⸀δέομαι μακροθύμως ἀκοῦσαί μου.
English Translation
Indeed, being a knowledgeable person about all the customs and matters among the Jews, I therefore ask you to hear me patiently.
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Chapter 26 Context
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Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.”
Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his d...
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“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all th...
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especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I...
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“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my ow...
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having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our...
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Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God (Elohim) to our fathers,
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which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am...
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8
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God (Elohim) does raise the dead?
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9
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Yashua (Jesu...
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10
This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authorit...
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11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enrage...
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12
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
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at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and...
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14
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,
‘Saul, Sau...
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15
“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
“He said,
‘I am Yashua (Jesus), whom you are persecuting.
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16
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a se...
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delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
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to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God (E...
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19
“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
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but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and a...
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21
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
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22
Having therefore obtained the help that is from God (Elohim), I stand to this day testifying both to...
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23
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim...
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24
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learnin...
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25
But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonabl...
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26
For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of the...
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27
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
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28
Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
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Paul said, “I pray to God (Elohim), that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also al...
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30
The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
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31
When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death o...
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Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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