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1	Paul's Defense before Agrippa Agrippa told Paul, “You may now speak for yourself.” Paul stretched out his hand and said:	Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
2	King Agrippa, I am glad for this chance to defend myself before you today on all these charges my own people have brought against me.	I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
3	You know a lot about our religious customs and the beliefs that divide us. So I ask you to listen patiently to me.	Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4	—	My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
5	All the Jews have known me since I was a child. They know what kind of life I have lived in my own country and in Jerusalem. And if they were willing, they could tell you I was a Pharisee, a member of a group that is stricter than any other.	Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
6	Now I am on trial because I believe the promise God made to our people long ago.	And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7	Day and night our twelve tribes have earnestly served God, waiting for his promised blessings. King Agrippa, because of this hope, some of our leaders have brought charges against me.	Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8	Why should any of you doubt that God raises the dead to life?	Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
9	I once thought that I should do everything I could to oppose Jesus from Nazareth.	I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10	I did this first in Jerusalem, and with the authority of the chief priests I put many of God's people in jail. I even voted for them to be killed.	Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11	I often had them punished in our synagogues, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.	And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12	King Agrippa, one day I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and permission of the chief priests.	Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13	About noon I saw a light brighter than the sun. It flashed from heaven on me and on everyone traveling with me.	At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14	We all fell to the ground. Then I heard a voice say to me in Aramaic, “Saul, Saul, why are you so cruel to me? It's foolish to fight against me!”	And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15	“Who are you?” I asked. Then the Lord answered, “I am Jesus! I am the one you are so cruel to.	And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16	Now stand up. I have appeared to you, because I have chosen you to be my servant. You are to tell others what you have learned about me and what I will show you later.”	But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17	The Lord also said, “I will protect you from the Jews and from the Gentiles that I am sending you to.	Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18	I want you to open their eyes, so they will turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then their sins will be forgiven, and by faith in me they will become part of God's holy people.”	To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
19	King Agrippa, I obeyed this vision from heaven.	Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
20	First I preached to the people in Damascus, and then I went to Jerusalem and all over Judea. Finally, I went to the Gentiles and said, “Stop sinning and turn to God! Then prove what you have done by the way you live.”	But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
21	That is why some men grabbed me in the temple and tried to kill me.	For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
22	But all this time God has helped me, and I have preached both to the rich and to the poor. I have told them only what the prophets and Moses said would happen.	Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
23	I told them how the Messiah would suffer and be the first to be raised from death, so he could bring light to his own people and to the Gentiles.	That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
24	Before Paul finished defending himself, Festus shouted, “Paul, you're crazy! Too much learning has driven you out of your mind.”	And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
25	But Paul replied, “Honorable Festus, I am not crazy. What I am saying is true, and it makes sense.	But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
26	None of these things happened off in a corner somewhere. I am sure that King Agrippa knows what I am talking about. That's why I can speak so plainly to him.”	For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
27	Then Paul said to Agrippa, “Do you believe what the prophets said? I know you do.”	King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
28	Agrippa asked Paul, “In such a short time do you think you can talk me into being a Christian?”	Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
29	Paul answered, “Whether it takes a short time or a long time, I wish you and everyone else who hears me today would become just like me! Except, of course, for these chains.”	And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
30	Then King Agrippa, Governor Festus, Bernice, and everyone who was with them got up.	And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:
31	But before they left, they said, “This man isn't guilty of anything. He doesn't deserve to die or to be put in jail.”	And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
32	Agrippa told Festus, “Paul could have been set free, if he had not asked to be tried by the Roman Emperor.”	Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cesar.