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22 Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I have been wanting also to hear the man myself.” He says, “Tomorrow you will hear him.”
23 So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice, having come with great pomp and having entered into the audience hall with both the commanders and the men in prominence in the city, and Festus having commanded, Paul was brought in.
24 And Festus says, “King Agrippa and all men being present with us, you see this one concerning whom the whole multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out of him that he ought not to live any longer.
25 But I, having understood him to have done nothing worthy of death, of this one himself now having appealed to the Emperor, I determined to send him,
26 concerning whom I have nothing definite to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that of the examination having taken place, I might have something to write.
27 For it seems absurd to me, sending a prisoner, not also to specify the charges against him.”
26 1 And Agrippa was saying to Paul, “It is permitted you to speak for yourself.” Then Paul, having stretched out the hand, began his defense:
2 “Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I esteem myself fortunate before you, being about to defend myself today,
3 you being especially acquainted with all the customs and also controversies of the Jews. Therefore I implore you to hear me patiently.
4 Then indeed all the Jews know my manner of life which is from youth, having been from its beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem,
5 knowing me from the first, if they would be willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
6 And now I stand being judged for the hope of the promise having been made by God to our fathers,
7 to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving in earnestness night and day, the hope concerning which I am accused by the Jews, O king.
8 Why is it judged incredible by you if God raises the dead?
9 Therefore I indeed in myself thought I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth,
10 which also I did in Jerusalem. And I also locked up many of the saints in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests; and they being put to death, I cast against them a vote.
11 And in all the synagogues, punishing them often, I was compelling them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly furious against them, I kept persecuting them even as far as to foreign cities,