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Often have I tried to force them into blaspheming, by inflicting punishment on them in one synagogue after another; nay, so unmeasured was my rage against them that I used to go to foreign cities to persecute them. (Acts 26, 11)
We all fell to the ground,✻ and I heard a voice which said to me, in Hebrew, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me? This is a thankless task of thine, kicking against the goad. (Acts 26, 14)
I will be thy deliverer from the hands of thy people, and of the Gentiles, to whom I am now sending thee. (Acts 26, 17)
Thou shalt open their eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive, through faith in me, remission of their sins and an inheritance among the saints. (Acts 26, 18)
Whereupon, king Agrippa, I did not show myself disobedient to the heavenly vision. (Acts 26, 19)
First to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem, then to all the country of Judaea, then to the heathen, I preached repentance, bidding them turn to God, and so act as befits men who are penitent. (Acts 26, 20)
But, thanks to God’s help, I still stand here to-day, bearing my witness to small and great alike. Yet there is nothing in my message which goes beyond what the prophets spoke of, and Moses spoke of, as things to come; (Acts 26, 22)
When Paul had proceeded so far with his defence, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; they are driving thee to madness, these long studies of thine. (Acts 26, 24)
But Paul answered, No, most noble Festus, I am not mad; the message which I utter is sober truth. (Acts 26, 25)
The king knows about all this well enough; that is why I speak with such confidence in his presence. None of this, I am sure, is news to him; it was not in some secret corner that all this happened. (Acts 26, 26)
Dost thou believe the prophets, king Agrippa? I am well assured thou dost believe them. (Acts 26, 27)
Why, said Paul, it would be my prayer to God that, whether it were with much ado or little, both thou and all those who are listening to me to-day should become just such as I am, but for these chains.✻ (Acts 26, 29)
