26:1 Then
Agrippa
said
vnto
Paul,
Thou
art
permitted
to
speake
for
thy
selfe.
Then
Paul
stretched
foorth
the
hand,
and
answered
for
himselfe,
26:2 I
thinke
my
selfe
happy,
king
Agrippa,
because
I
shall
answere
for
my
selfe
this
day
before
thee
touching
all
the
things
whereof
I
am
accused
of
the
Iewes:
26:3 Especially,
because
I
know
thee
to
be
expert
in
all
customes
and
questions
which
are
among
the
Iewes:
wherefore
I
beseech
thee
to
heare
mee
patiently.
26:4 My
maner
of
life
from
my
youth,
which
was
at
the
first
among
mine
owne
nation
at
Hierusalem,
know
all
the
Iewes,
26:5 Which
knew
me
from
the
beginning,
(if
they
would
testifie)
that
after
the
most
straitest
sect
of
our
religion,
I
liued
a
Pharisee.
26:6 And
now
I
stand,
and
am
iudged
for
the
hope
of
the
promise
made
of
God
vnto
our
fathers:
26:7 Vnto
which
promise
our
twelue
tribes
instantly
seruing
God
day
and
night,
hope
to
come:
For
which
hopes
sake,
King
Agrippa,
I
am
accused
of
the
Iewes.
26:8 Why
should
it
be
thought
a
thing
incredible
with
you,
that
God
should
raise
the
dead
26:9 I
verily
thought
with
my
selfe,
that
I
ought
to
doe
many
things
contrary
to
the
name
of
Iesus
of
Nazareth:
26:10 Which
thing
I
also
did
in
Hierusalem,
and
many
of
the
Saints
did
I
shut
vp
in
prison,
hauing
receiued
authoritie
from
the
chiefe
Priests,
and
when
they
were
put
to
death,
I
gaue
my
voyce
against
them.
26:11 And
I
punished
them
oft
in
euery
Synagogue,
and
compelled
them
to
blaspheme,
and
being
exceedingly
mad
against
them,
I
persecuted
them
euen
vnto
strange
cities.
26:12 Whereupon,
as
I
went
to
Damascus,
with
authoritie
and
commission
from
the
chiefe
Priests:
26:13 At
midday,
O
king,
I
saw
in
the
way
a
light
from
heauen,
aboue
the
brightnes
of
the
Sunne,
shining
round
about
mee,
and
them
which
iourneyed
with
me.
26:14 And
when
wee
were
all
fallen
to
the
earth,
I
heard
a
voice
speaking
vnto
me,
and
saying
in
the
Hebrew
tongue,
Saul,
Saul,
why
persecutest
thou
me
It
is
hard
for
thee
to
kicke
against
the
prickes.
26:15 And
I
said,
Who
art
thou,
Lord
And
hee
said,
I
am
Iesus
whom
thou
persecutest.
26:16 But
rise,
and
stand
vpon
thy
feete,
for
I
haue
appeared
vnto
thee
for
this
purpose,
to
make
thee
a
minister
and
a
witnesse,
both
of
these
things
which
thou
hast
seene,
&
of
those
things
in
the
which
I
will
appeare
vnto
thee,
26:17 Deliuering
thee
from
the
people,
and
from
the
Gentiles,
vnto
whom
now
I
send
thee,
26:18 To
open
their
eyes,
and
to
turne
them
from
darknesse
to
light,
and
from
the
power
of
Satan
vnto
God,
that
they
may
receiue
forgiuenesse
of
sinnes,
and
inheritance
among
them
which
are
sanctified
by
faith
that
is
in
me.
26:19 Whereupon,
O
king
Agrippa,
I
was
not
disobedient
vnto
the
heauenly
vision:
26:20 But
shewed
first
vnto
them
of
Damascus,
and
at
Hierusalem,
and
thorowout
all
the
coasts
of
Iudea,
and
then
to
the
Gentiles,
that
they
should
repent
and
turne
to
God,
and
do
works
meete
for
repentance.
26:21 For
these
causes
the
Iewes
caught
mee
in
the
Temple,
and
went
about
to
kill
me.
26:22 Hauing
therefore
obteined
helpe
of
God,
I
continue
vnto
this
day,
witnessing
both
to
small
and
great,
saying
none
other
things
then
those
which
the
Prophets
and
Moses
did
say
should
come:
26:23 That
Christ
should
suffer,
and
that
hee
should
be
the
first
that
should
rise
from
the
dead,
&
should
shew
light
vnto
the
people,
and
to
the
Gentiles.
26:24 And
as
hee
thus
spake
for
himselfe,
Festus
saide
with
a
lowd
voyce,
Paul,
thou
art
beside
thy
selfe,
much
learning
doeth
make
thee
mad.
26:25 But
he
said,
I
am
not
mad,
most
noble
Festus,
but
speake
foorth
the
words
of
trueth
and
sobernesse.
26:26 For
the
King
knoweth
of
these
things,
before
whom
also
I
speake
freely:
for
I
am
perswaded,
that
none
of
these
things
are
hidden
from
him,
for
this
thing
was
not
done
in
a
corner.
26:27 King
Agrippa,
beleeuest
thou
the
Prophets
I
know
that
thou
beleeuest.
26:28 Then
Agrippa
saide
vnto
Paul,
Almost
thou
perswadest
mee
to
bee
a
Christian.
26:29 And
Paul
said,
I
would
to
God,
that
not
onely
thou,
but
also
all
that
heare
mee
this
day,
were
both
almost,
and
altogether
such
as
I
am,
except
these
bonds.
26:30 And
when
hee
had
thus
spoken,
the
king
rose
vp,
and
the
gouernour,
and
Bernice,
&
they
that
sate
with
them.
26:31 And
when
they
were
gone
aside,
they
talked
betweene
themselues,
saying,
This
man
doeth
nothing
worthy
of
death,
or
of
bonds.
26:32 Then
said
Agrippa
vnto
Festus,
This
man
might
haue
bene
set
at
libertie,
if
he
had
not
appealed
vnto
Cesar.