Agrippa then to Paul was saying, It is permitted you for yourself to speak. Then Paul, having stretched out the hand, was defending

Concerning all of which I am accused by [the] Jews, King Agrippa, I have esteemed myself fortunate before you, being about today to defend myself.

Especially acquainted being you with all the of [the] Jews customs, and also controversies; therefore I implore patiently to hear me.

The indeed then manner of life of me, which [is] from youth, from [its] beginning having been among the nation of me, in also Jerusalem, have known all the Jews,

knowing me from the first, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived [as] a Pharisee.

And now for [the] hope of the to the fathers of us promise having been made by God, I have stood being judged,

to which the twelve tribes of us in earnestness, night and day, serving, hope to attain; concerning which hope I am accused by Jews, O king.

Why incredible is it judged by you if God [the] dead raises?

I indeed therefore thought in myself to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, needing many things contrary to do,

which also I did in Jerusalem; and many also of the saints I in prisons locked up, the from the chief priests authority having received; when were being put to death then they, I cast against [them] a vote.

And in all the synagogues, often punishing them, I was compelling [them] to blaspheme. Exceedingly then being furious against them, I was persecuting [them] as far as even to foreign cities,

during which, journeying to Damascus with [the] authority and commission which [is] the chief priests,

At day mid on the road I saw, O king, from heaven above, the brightness of the sun, having shone around me, a light; and those with me journeying.

All and when were falling down we to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why Me persecute you? [It is] hard for you against [the] goads to kick.

I then said, Who are You, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

But do rise up and do stand on the feet of you; for this purpose for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness of that which both you have seen of Me, of the things in which then I will appear to you,

delivering you out from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

to open eyes of them, that to turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, [that] to receive they forgiveness of sins and [an] inheritance among those sanctified by faith which [is] in Me.

So then, O king Agrippa, not I was disobedient to the heavenly vision,

but to those in Damascus first, both also in Jerusalem all, and the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, I was declaring to repent and to turn to God, worthy of repentance works doing.

On account of these things, me Jews having seized being in the temple, they were attempting to kill.

Help therefore having obtained from God unto day this, I have stood, bearing witness to small both and to great, nothing other saying than what both the prophets said was about to happen, and Moses,