Acts 26:25

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But Paul sayde: I am not madd (most deare Festus) but speake the wordes of trueth and sobernesse:

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  • Acts 23:26 : 26 Claudius Lysias, vnto the most mightie Debyte Felix, gretynge.
  • Acts 24:3 : 3 (most mightie Felix)that alowe we euer and in all places with all thankes.
  • Titus 1:9 : 9 and soch one as cleueth vnto the true worde of doctryne: that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome lernynge, & to improue them that saye agaynst it.
  • Titus 2:7-8 : 7 Aboue all thinge shewe thy selfe an ensample off good workes, with vncorrupte doctryne, with honestye, with the wholsome 8 worde which can not be rebuked: that he which withstodeth maye be ashamed, hauynge nothinge in you that he maye disprayse.
  • 1 Pet 2:21-23 : 21 For here vnto are ye called, for so moch as Christ also suffred for vs, leauynge vs an ensample, that ye shulde folowe his fotesteppes, 22 which dyd no synne, nether was there gyle founde in his mouth: 23 which whan he was reuyled, reuyled not agayne: wha he suffred, he threatened not: but commytted the cause vnto him, that iudgeth righteously:
  • 1 Pet 3:9 : 9 Recopence not euell for euell, nether rebuke for rebuke: but cotrary wyse, blesse: and knowe that ye are called therto, euen yt ye shulde be heyres of ye blessynge.
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 but sanctifye the LORDE God in youre hertes. Be ready allwayes to geue an answere to euery ma, that axeth you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with mekenes & feare,
  • Luke 1:3 : 3 I thought it good (after that I had diligently searched out all from the begynnynge) to wryte the same orderly vnto the (good Theophilus)
  • John 8:49 : 49 Iesus answered: I haue no deuell, but I honoure my father, and ye haue dishonoured me.

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  • Acts 26:24
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    24Whan he thus answered for himselfe, Festus sayde with a loude voyce: Paul, thou art besydes thy selfe, moch lernynge maketh ye madd.

  • Acts 26:26-32
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    26for ye kynge knoweth this well, vnto whom I speake frely. For I thinke that none off these thinges is hyd from him: for this was not done in a corner.

    27Beleuest thou the prophetes, O kynge Agrippa? I knowe that thou beleuest.

    28Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Thou persuadest me in a parte to become a Christen.

    29Paul sayde: I wolde to God, that (not onely in a parte but alltogether,) I mighte persuade not the onely, but all them that heare me this daye, to be soch I am, these bondes excepte.

    30And whan he had spoken this, the kynge rose vp, and the Debyte, and Bernice, and they that sat with them,

    31and wente asyde, and talked together, and sayde: This man hath done nothinge that is worthy of death or of bondes.

    32But Agrippa sayde vnto Festus: This man mighte haue bene lowsed, yf he had not appealed vnto the Emperoure.

  • Acts 25:8-18
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    8whyle he answered for himselfe: I haue nether offended ought agaynst the lawe of the Iewes, ner agaynst the teple, ner agaynst the Emperoure.

    9But Festus wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure, answered Paul, and sayde: Wilt thou go vp to Ierusalem, and there be iudged off these thinges before me?

    10But Paul sayde: I stonde at the Emperours iudgmet seate, where I ought to be iudged: to the Iewes haue I done no harme, as thou also knowest very well.

    11Yf I haue hurte eny man, or committed eny thinge worthy off death, I refuse not to dye. But yf there are no soch thinges as they accuse me off, then maye no man delyuer me vnto them. I appeale vnto the Emperoure.

    12Then spake Festus with the Councell, and answered: Thou hast appealed vnto the Emperoure, to the Emperoure shalt thou go.

    13After certayne dayes came kynge Agrippa and Bernice to Cesarea to welcome Festus.

    14And whan they had taried there many dayes, Festus rehearsed Pauls cause vnto the kynge, and sayde: There is a man left bounde of Felix,

    15for whose cause the hye prestes and Elders of the Iewes appeared before me whan I was at Ierusalem, and desyred a sentence agaynst him.

    16Vnto whom I answered: It is not the maner off the Romaynes to delyuer eny man that he shulde perishe, before that he which is accused, haue his accusers presente, and receaue libertye to answere for him selfe to the accusacion.

    17Wha they were come hither together, I made no delaye, but sat the nexte daye in iudgment, and commaunded the man to be broughte forth.

    18Of whom, whan the accusers stode vp, they broughte no accusacion of soch thinges as I supposed:

  • Acts 26:1-3
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    1Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Thou hast leue to speake for thy selfe.The Paul stretched forth the hande, and answered for himselfe:

    2I thinke my selfe happye (O kynge Agrippa) because I shal answere this daye before the, of all the thinges wherof I am accused of the Iewes:

    3specially for so moch as thou art experte in all customes and questions, which are amonge the Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the, to heare me paciently.

  • Acts 25:20-27
    8 verses
    70%

    20Howbeit because I vnderstode not the question, I axed hi, whether he wolde go to Ierusale, and there be iudged of these matters.

    21But wha Paul had appealed, that he might be kepte vnto the knowlege of the Emperoure, I comaunded him to be kepte, tyll I mighte sende him to the Emperoure.

    22Agrippa sayde vnto Festus: I wolde fayne heare the man also. He sayde: Tomorow shalt thou heare him.

    23And on the nexte daye came Agrippa & Bernice with greate pompe, and wete in to the comon hall with the captaynes & chefe me of the cite. And at Festus comaundement, Paul was brought forth.

    24And Festus sayde: Kynge Agrippa, and all ye men which are here with vs, ye se this man, aboute whom all the multitude of the Iewes haue entreated me, both at Ierusale and here also, and cried, that he ought not to lyue eny lenger.

    25But whan I perceaued that he had done nothinge worthy off death, and that he himselfe also had appealed vnto the Emperoure, I determyned to sende him,

    26of who I haue no certayne thinge to wryte vnto my lorde. Therfore haue I caused hi to be broughte forth before you, specially before the (O kynge Agrippa) that after examinacion had, I might haue somwhat to wryte.

    27For me thynke it an vnreasonable thinge to sende a presoner, and not to shewe the causes which are layed agaynst him.

  • Acts 24:10
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    10But Paul (whan the debyte had beckened vnto him, that he shulde speake) answered: Seynge I knowe that thou hast bene iudge now many yeares amonge this people, I wil not be afrayed to answere for my selfe,

  • Acts 26:19
    69%

    19Wherfore (O kynge Agrippa) I was not faithlesse vnto ye heauely vision,

  • Acts 24:25
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    25Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse, and off chastite and off the iudgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme, I wil sende for the.

  • Acts 25:4-6
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    68%

    4Then answered Festus, that Paul shulde be kepte at Cesarea, but that he himselfe wolde shortly go thither agayne.

    5Let them therfore (sayde he) which are able amonge you, come downe with vs to accuse the man, yf there be ought in him.

    6Whan he had taried amonge them more then ten dayes, he wente downe to Cesarea. And on the nexte daye he sat downe on the iudgment seate, and commaunded Paul to be broughte.

  • Acts 24:4
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    4Notwithstondinge yt I be nomore tedious vnto the, I praye the, that of thy curtesy thou woldest heare vs a few wordes.

  • Acts 23:1
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    1Paul behelde the councell, and sayde: Ye men and brethren, I haue lyued with all good conscience before God vnto this daye:

  • Acts 24:20-22
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    20or els lett these same here saye, yf they haue founde eny vnrighteousnes in me, whyle I stonde here before ye councell:

    21excepte it be for this one worde, that I cried stondinge amonge them: Of the resurreccion off the deed am I iudged of you this daye.

    22Whan Felix herde this, he dyfferred the (for he knewe very well of that waye) and sayde: Whan Lysias the vpper captayne commeth downe, I wyl knowe ye vttemost of youre matter

  • 2 Cor 5:13
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    13For yf we do to moch, we do it vnto God: yf we kepe measure,we do it for youre sakes.

  • Rom 9:1
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    1I saye the trueth in Christ, and lye not (wherof my conscience beareth me witnesse in the holy goost)

  • Acts 22:26
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    26Whan the vndercaptayne herde that, he wete to the vpper captayne, and tolde him, and sayde? What wilt thou do? This man is a Romayne.

  • Acts 21:39
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    39Paull sayde: I am a man which am a Iewe off Tharsis, a citesyn of a famous cite in Celicia: I beseke the, suffre me to speake vnto the people.

  • Acts 24:27
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    27But after two yeares came Portius Festus in to felix rowme. Yet Felix wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure, left Paul bounde.

  • Acts 25:1
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    1Now whan Festus was come in to the countre, ouer thre dayes he wente vp from Cesarea to Ierusalem.

  • Acts 24:13
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    13nether can they proue the thinges, wherof they accuse me.

  • 2 Cor 11:17
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    17That I speake now, that speake I not after the LORDE, but as it were in folishnes, whyle we are now come to boastinge:

  • 2 Cor 12:6
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    6And though I wolde boast my selfe, I dyd not foolishly, for I wolde saye the trueth. But I refrayne my selfe, lest eny ma shulde thinke of me aboue yt he seyth in me, or heareth of me.