Verse 12
Acts 26:12
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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Whereupon also, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Original Language Text
greek
Ἐν ⸀οἷς πορευόμενος εἰς τὴν Δαμασκὸν μετ’ ἐξουσίας καὶ ἐπιτροπῆς ⸀τῆς τῶν ἀρχιερέων
English Translation
While traveling to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests.
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Chapter 26 Context
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And Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his h...
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I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before thee this day touching all t...
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especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore...
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My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation in Jerus...
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having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect...
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And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God (Elohim) unto the fathers;
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unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God (Elohim) night and day, hope to attain....
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Why is it judged incredible with you, if God (Elohim) doth raise the dead?
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I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Yashua (Jesus) o...
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And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received autho...
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And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exce...
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Whereupon also, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
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at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining ro...
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew...
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And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Yashua (Jesus) whom thou persecutest.
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But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a min...
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delivering thee from the people, and the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,
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to open their eyes, that they may turn away from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto...
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Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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but have been declaring to them of Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea...
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For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.
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Having therefore obtained the help that is from God (Elohim), I stand unto this day testifying both...
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how that the Christ must suffer, and how that he first by the resurrection of the dead should procla...
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And as he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learnin...
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But he saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus; but speak forth words of truth and soberness.
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For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of...
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King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
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And Agrippa said unto Paul, In a little time thou persuadest me to become a Christian!
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And Paul said, I would to God (Elohim), that whether in a little time or in much, not thou only, but...
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And when he had spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that...
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and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of dea...
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And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto C...
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