Acts 26:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Acts 6:14 : 14 For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.
  • Acts 24:4 : 4 But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.
  • Acts 24:10 : 10 Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:
  • Acts 25:19-20 : 19 But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living. 20 And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.
  • Acts 25:26 : 26 But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.
  • Acts 26:7 : 7 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!
  • Acts 26:26 : 26 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.
  • Acts 28:17 : 17 Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
  • Deut 17:18 : 18 And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 26:4-6
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    4All 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;

    5And 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.

    6And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;

  • Acts 26:1-2
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    1And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

    2In 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:

  • Acts 24:10-11
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    10Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:

    11Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;

  • Acts 25:26-27
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    26But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.

    27For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.

  • Acts 24:3-4
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    3In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.

    4But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.

  • Acts 26:26-27
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    26For 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.

    27King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

  • Acts 25:15-16
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    15Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.

    16To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.

  • Acts 25:8-10
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    8Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.

    9But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

    10And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

  • Acts 24:19-22
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    19And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

    20Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

    21But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

    22But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.

  • Acts 28:17-20
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    17Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

    18Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.

    19But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

    20But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

  • Acts 22:1-3
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    1My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

    2And, hearing him talking in the Hebrew language, they became the more quiet, and he said,

    3I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

  • Acts 25:20
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    20And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.

  • Acts 24:8
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    8And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.

  • Acts 23:28-30
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    28And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:

    29Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death.

    30And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.

  • Acts 28:22
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    22But we have a desire to give hearing to your opinion: for as to this form of religion, we have knowledge that in all places it is attacked.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:

  • Acts 21:39
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    39But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.

  • 2 Tim 1:18
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    18(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.

  • Acts 23:35
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    35I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

  • Acts 25:24
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    24And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer.

  • Acts 25:22
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    22And Agrippa said to Festus, I have a desire to give the man a hearing myself. Tomorrow, he said, you may give him a hearing.

  • John 18:21
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    21Why are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to them: they have knowledge of what I said.

  • Acts 26:29-30
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    29And 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.

    30And the king and the ruler and Bernice and those who were seated with them got up;

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10But you took as your example my teaching, behaviour, purpose, and faith; my long waiting, my love, my quiet undergoing of trouble;

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3My answer to those who are judging me is this.

  • Acts 25:12
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    12Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.

  • Acts 24:14
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    14But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:

  • Acts 26:19
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    19So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

  • Acts 23:20
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    20And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.