MLV(i)
1 Now Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted for you to speak on behalf of yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and was making his defense.
2 Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I have deemed myself fortunate today, being about to make my defense in front of you;
3 especially because you are an expert of all things according to the things of the Jews, both customs and debates. Hence, I beseech of you to hear me patiently.
4 Therefore my lifestyle indeed which happened from my youth up, from the beginning in my own nation and in Jerusalem, all the Jews know this. 5 If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion. 6 And now I am standing here, being judged against the hope of the promise which came by God to the fathers; 7 to which our twelve tribes, intensely giving-divine service to God night and day, are hoping to achieve of which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
8 Why is it judged as unbelievable with you, if God is raising the dead?
9 Therefore I indeed thought in myself, that I ought to do many things adverse to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. 10 I also did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the holy-ones in prisons, having received authority from the high-priests, and when they were assassinated, I brought my voting-pebble against them. 11 And punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was urging them to blaspheme, and being exceptionally enraged with them, I was persecuting them, insofar as possible, even to the cities outside our nation.
4 Therefore my lifestyle indeed which happened from my youth up, from the beginning in my own nation and in Jerusalem, all the Jews know this. 5 If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion. 6 And now I am standing here, being judged against the hope of the promise which came by God to the fathers; 7 to which our twelve tribes, intensely giving-divine service to God night and day, are hoping to achieve of which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
8 Why is it judged as unbelievable with you, if God is raising the dead?
9 Therefore I indeed thought in myself, that I ought to do many things adverse to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. 10 I also did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the holy-ones in prisons, having received authority from the high-priests, and when they were assassinated, I brought my voting-pebble against them. 11 And punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was urging them to blaspheme, and being exceptionally enraged with them, I was persecuting them, insofar as possible, even to the cities outside our nation.