Acts 26:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Acts 6:14 : 14 for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostacy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying -- Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;
  • Acts 24:4 : 4 and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;
  • Acts 24:10 : 10 And 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 25:19-20 : 19 but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive; 20 and 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 --
  • Acts 25:26 : 26 concerning 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;
  • Acts 26:7 : 7 to 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 26:26 : 26 for 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;
  • Acts 28:17 : 17 And 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;
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
  • Deut 17:18 : 18 `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from `that' before the priests the Levites,

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  • Acts 26:4-6
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    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,

  • Acts 26:1-2
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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:

    2`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,

  • Acts 24:10-11
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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;

    11thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

  • Acts 25:26-27
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    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 24:3-4
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    3always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

    4and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;

  • Acts 26:26-27
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    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!'

  • Acts 25:15-16
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    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'.

  • Acts 25:8-10
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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;

  • Acts 24:19-22
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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.'

    22And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;'

  • Acts 28:17-20
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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;

    20for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with `you', for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'

  • Acts 22:1-3
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    1`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

    2and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --

    3`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

  • Acts 25:20
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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 --

  • 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;'

  • Acts 23:28-30
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    28and, intending to know the cause for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their sanhedrim,

    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 28:22
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    22and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'

  • Acts 22:19
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    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

  • Acts 21:39
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    39And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'

  • 2 Tim 1:18
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    18may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.

  • Acts 23:35
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    35`I will hear thee -- said he -- when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

  • Acts 25:24
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    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;

  • Acts 25:22
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    22And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

  • John 18:21
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    21why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'

  • Acts 26:29-30
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    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,

  • 2 Tim 3:10
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    10And thou -- thou hast followed after my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance,

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

  • Acts 25:12
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    12then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'

  • Acts 24:14
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    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 26:19
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    19`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Acts 23:20
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    20and he said -- `The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;