Acts 26:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

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  • Acts 26:1
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    1And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:

  • Acts 26:3-7
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    3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

    4`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

    5knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

    6and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

    7to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;

  • Acts 25:20-27
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    20and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --

    21but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.'

    22And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

    23on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.

    24And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

    25and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,

    26concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to `my' lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

    27for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'

  • Acts 24:10
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    10And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

  • Acts 26:24-32
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    24And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

    25and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

    26for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;

    27thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

    28And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'

    29and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.'

    30And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,

    31and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- `This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

    32and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

  • Acts 25:8-18
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    8he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'

    9And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'

    10and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

    11for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'

    12then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'

    13And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,

    14and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,

    15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

    16unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him'.

    17`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding `day' having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

    18concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against `him' no accusation of the things I was thinking of,

  • Acts 28:17-19
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    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

    18who, having examined me, were wishing to release `me', because of their being no cause of death in me,

    19and the Jews having spoken against `it', I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

  • Acts 24:19-21
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    19whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

    20or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

    21except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

  • Acts 26:19
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    19`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • 1 Cor 9:3
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    3My defence to those who examine me in this;

  • Acts 23:1
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    1And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

  • Acts 22:1
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    1`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

  • Acts 23:29-30
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    29whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

    30and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

  • Acts 24:13-14
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    13nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

    14`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

  • Acts 24:8
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    8having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'