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Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

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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:

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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.

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My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews

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Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

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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.

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Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

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I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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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].

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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.