Acts 26

Acts 26:1

• Agrippa
• Then Agrippa
• So Agrippa

• said to

• Paul. “
• Paul, ‘
• Paul, “

• You

• may now
• have permission to
• may
• are permitted to

• speak for
• speak to defend

• yourself.’
• yourself.”

• Then
• So

• Paul
• Paul,

• stretched out
• raised
• motioned with

• his

• hand and
• hand, and

• began
• made

• his

• defense.
• defense:

Acts 26:2

• [Translation pending]

Acts 26:3

• especially because you
• You
• because you

• are

• especially
• so

• familiar with all the customs and

• controversies of the
• questions which are among the

• Jews.
• Jews:
• Jews;

• therefore
• Therefore
• Therefore,

• I

• beg
• ask

• you to

• listen to
• hear
• give

• me
• me with
• me a

• patiently.
• patiently!
• patience.

Acts 26:4

• All the Jews
• “All the Jews

• know about my whole life. They know the way I lived from the

• beginning among
• beginning in

• my own country and later in

• Jerusalem.
• Jerusalem;
• Jerusalem,

Acts 26:5

• They

• have known
• have known about

• me for a
• me from the

• long time, if
• first, if

• they

• are
• were

• willing to testify, that according to the strictest

• sect of
• party of

• our

• religion:
• religion,
• religion

• I

• lived as a
• have lived as a
• lived a

• Pharisee.

Acts 26:6

• “And now
• And now
• Now

• I

• am on
• am standing

• trial for the
• trial because of the

• hope in the
• hope of the

• promise made by God to our

• ancestors,
• ancestors—
• ancestors.
• fathers,
• fathers.
• fathers;
• people long ago.

Acts 26:7

• to which our twelve
• Our twelve
• This is the promise our twelve
• a promise that our twelve

• tribes hope to

• attain, as
• attain as
• receive as

• they earnestly worship night and

• day,
• day.

• It

• is because of this
• is for this

• hope, your Excellency, that I am being

• accused by the
• accused by

• Jews.
• Jews!

Acts 26:8

• Why is
• Why does

• it

• thought incredible by any of
• considered incredible among

• you that

• God
• God to
• God should

• raises the
• raise the
• should raise the
• raise people from

• dead?
• death?

Acts 26:9

• ‘I
• “I,
• “I
• ’I myself
• “I myself

• used to
• myself
• once
• too,
• too

• thought that
• think that
• was convinced that
• thought

• I

• ought to
• had to
• must
• should

• do many

• things against the name of
• things against the

• Jesus of
• Jesus the
• Jesus from
• name of Jesus of

• Nazareth.
• Nazareth,
• Nazareth;
• Nazarene,
• Nazarene.

Acts 26:10

• [Translation pending]

Acts 26:11

• And I
• I

• punished them often in all the

• synagogues, I
• synagogues I
• synagogues and

• tried to

• force
• make

• them to
• them

• blaspheme; and since I
• blaspheme; and

• was
• being

• so furiously enraged at

• them
• them,
• them that
• them, that

• I

• pursued
• persecuted

• them
• them,

• even to foreign cities.

Acts 26:12

• [Translation pending]

Acts 26:13

• at midday, O

• King,
• king,

• I saw on the way a

• light from
• light from the

• heaven,
• heaven
• sky,

• brighter than the

• sun,
• sun.
• sun
• sun and
• sun, and
• sun, that

• shining around
• shining all around
• shone around

• me and those who
• me and those

• traveling with
• were traveling with
• journeyed with

• me.

Acts 26:14

• We all
• And when we
• When we
• All of us

• fell to the
• had all fallen to the

• ground.
• ground,
• ground, and
• ground and
• ground. Then

• I
• then I
• Then I

• heard a voice

• saying to
• speaking to
• say to

• me in
• me in the

• Aramaic: “
• Aramaic, “
• Aramaic, ‘
• Hebrew—‘
• Hebrew, ‘
• Hebrew, “
• Hebrew language, ‘
• Jewish language, ‘
• Jewish language, “
• Aramaic language. ‘
• Aramaic language, ‘

• Saul,

• Saul! Why
• Saul, why

• are
• do

• you

• persecuting
• persecute

• Me?
• me?

• It

• is
• ’s

• hard for

• you to
• you
• you,
• you, this

• kick against the
• kicking against the

• goads.’
• goads!’
• goad.’
• goad.”
• goad.

Acts 26:15

• ‘I
• “I
• I
• “Then I
• Then I
• And I
• So I

• said, ‘Who
• said, “Who
• said, Who
• asked, ‘Who

• are

• you,
• You,

• Lord?’ “And the
• Lord?’ And the
• Lord? And the
• Lord?” And the
• Lord?’ “The
• Lord?’ The
• Lord?’
• Lord?’ “
• Lord?’ And

• Lord
• He

• said, ‘
• said,
• said: “
• said, “
• replied, “
• replied, ‘
• replied: ‘
• answered, “
• answered, ‘

• I am

• Jesus, Whom
• Jesus whom
• Jesus, whom
• Jesus, the One
• Jesus, the one

• youare persecuting.

Acts 26:16

• But get up and
• But rise and

• stand on your

• feet; for
• feet! For
• feet. For
• feet, for
• feet!
• feet.

• I have appeared to

• you for this
• you for a

• purpose: to
• purpose, to
• reason: to
• reason, to

• appoint

• you a
• you as a
• you to

• servant and
• servant and a
• minister and a

• witness to the
• witness both of the
• witness both to the

• things in which
• things which

• you have

• seen
• seen of
• seen, and of the
• seen and of the

• me and to those in which
• things which

• I

• will
• will yet

• show
• appear to
• reveal to
• see of

• you.
• you,
• you;
• you in the future.
• me.

Acts 26:17

• “‘I
• I

• will
• shall

• rescue
• deliver

• you from
• you from the

• your
• Jewish

• people, and from the
• people and from the

• Gentiles, to whom
• Gentiles to whom
• Gentiles.
• nations to whom

• I

• am
• now

• sending
• send

• you.
• you
• you,
• you to them
• you to.

Acts 26:18

• to open
• To open
• You are to open

• their

• eyes, that
• eyes that
• eyes so that

• they may

• turn from
• turn away from

• darkness to
• darkness to the

• light and from the
• light, and from the
• light, from the

• power of
• dominion of

• Satan to God, that they may

• receive
• obtain

• forgiveness of

• sins and a
• sins, and an
• sins and an

• inheritance among those who
• place among those who
• share among those who

• are
• have been

• sanctified by
• made

• faith in
• holy by believing in

• me.” ’
• Me.”
• me. ”’
• Me.’
• Me.
• me.’

Acts 26:19

• “So then, King
• So then, King
• “ King
• King
• “King
• “Therefore, King
• ‘After that, King
• “After that, King
• After that, King
• “Wherefore, O King
• Wherefore, O king
• Wherefore, O King
• ‘So, king
• “So, King
• “And so, King
• ‘And so. King
• “Therefore, O King

• Agrippa,
• Agrippa, after

• I had this vision from heaven, I obeyed it.

Acts 26:20

• but declared

• first to those in
• first to those at

• Damascus,
• Damascus and
• Damascus, and

• then in
• then at

• Jerusalem and throughout all the
• Jerusalem, and throughout all the
• Jerusalem and throughout the
• Jerusalem and all the

• region of
• country of

• Judea, and

• also to the
• then to the

• Gentiles, that they should

• repent and
• repent, and

• turn to

• God and
• God, and
• God,

• do
• performing
• doing

• works
• deeds

• worthy of
• consistent with

• repentance.
• their repentance.

Acts 26:21

• For this reason the Jews
• That is why the Jews
• “That is why the Jews

• seized me in the

• temple and
• Temple and
• Temple, and
• temple, and
• temple courts and
• temple courtyard and

• tried to

• kill
• murder
• do away with

• me.

Acts 26:22

• [Translation pending]

Acts 26:23

• that the Christ
• that the Messiah
• They said that the Messiah

• would
• must
• was to

• suffer and
• suffer, and that as the
• suffer and that as the
• suffer and that, as the
• suffer and, as the

• first to
• be the first to

• rise from the dead,

• He
• he

• would

• proclaim
• announce the
• bring

• light to his own
• light to the
• light both to the
• light both to our

• people and to the Gentiles.
• people and to the Gentiles.”

Acts 26:24

• As Paul was

• making
• defending

• his defense, Festus shouted, “Paul, you

• are
• ’re

• mad;
• mad,
• mad!
• crazy!

• your
• Your
• Too
• Paul; your
• Paul! Your

• great
• much

• learning
• study
• learning of

• is
• has

• driving
• driven
• made

• you
• you out of your

• mad.’
• mad.”
• mad!”
• insane!
• insane!”
• insane.”
• crazy!”
• crazy.”
• crazy.’
• mind.”

Acts 26:25

• But Paul
• Paul
• But he

• replied, “
• replied,
• said, “

• I

• am
• ’m

• not
• not out of

• mad,
• my mind,
• crazy,
• insane,

• Most
• most
• Your

• excellent Festus, but Iam

• speaking the
• speaking

• sober
• true and

• truth!
• truth.
• rational words.

Acts 26:26

• For the king
• The king
• King Agrippa
• Indeed the king
• Indeed, the king

• knows about these

• matters, and to
• matters and to

• him I

• speak
• am speaking

• boldly. For
• boldly, for

• I

• am
• ’m

• persuaded that
• certain that

• none of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a

• corner!
• corner.

Acts 26:27

• King

• Agrippa
• Agrippa,

• do you

• believe the
• believe what the

• Prophets?
• prophets?
• prophets wrote?

• I

• know
• know that

• you

• do—”
• do!”
• do.’
• do.”
• believe.”
• believe!”
• believe them!”
• believe them.’
• believe them.”

Acts 26:28

• Agrippa
• Then Agrippa
• But Agrippa

• said to

• Paul, “In a
• Paul, “In this
• Paul, “In such a

• short time are you

• persuading
• persuade

• me to

• become a
• be a

• Christian?
• Christian?”
• Christian.”

Acts 26:29

• [Translation pending]

Acts 26:30

• Then the king, the
• The king, the

• governor, and
• governor and
• governor,

• Bernice, and those who
• Bernice and those who
• Bernice and those
• Bernice, and those

• sitting with
• sat with

• them
• them,

• got up,
• got up.
• stood up

Acts 26:31

• As they
• And when they
• and when they
• and after they
• And after they
• They
• and as they
• And as they
• When they

• had
• were
• left the

• withdrawn
• withdrawn,
• leaving
• leaving,
• left,
• gone aside,

• they

• said to one another, “This
• spoke to one another, saying, “This

• man

• is
• has
• is not

• doing
• done

• nothing that
• anything
• nothing
• nothing to

• deserves
• deserve
• deserving
• worthy of

• death or

• imprisonment.’
• imprisonment.”
• chains.”

Acts 26:32

• and Agrippa
• And Agrippa
• Agrippa
• Then Agrippa

• said to
• told
• remarked to

• Festus, This
• Festus, “This
• Festus, ‘This
• Festus, “
• Festus, ‘
• Festus, ‘The

• man
• He
• We

• could
• might

• have
• let this man

• been
• go

• set free if
• set free, if
• released if
• discharged if
• discharged, if
• free, if
• free if
• free, but
• set at liberty, if
• set at liberty if

• he had

• not
• n’t

• appealed to
• appealed to the

• Caesar.
• Caesar.’
• Caesar.”
• Emperor.’
• emperor.
• emperor.”
• Emperor.”