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Acts 26:3

New American Bible - revised edition

especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. And therefore I beg you to listen patiently.

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I accepted the deed of purchase, both the sealed copy, containing title and conditions, and the open copy.

They have been informed that you are teaching all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to abandon Moses and that you are telling them not to circumcise their children or to observe their customary practices.

Then the governor motioned to him to speak and Paul replied, “I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years and so I am pleased to make my defense before you.

But in order not to detain you further, I ask you to give us a brief hearing with your customary graciousness.

But I have nothing definite to write about him to our sovereign; therefore I have brought him before all of you, and particularly before you, King Agrippa, so that I may have something to write as a result of this investigation.

“I count myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am to defend myself before you today against all the charges made against me by the Jews,

The king knows about these matters and to him I speak boldly, for I cannot believe that [any] of this has escaped his notice; this was not done in a corner.

Our twelve tribes hope to attain to that promise as they fervently worship God day and night; and on account of this hope I am accused by Jews, O king.

Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them, “My brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or our ancestral customs, I was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.

For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

When he is sitting upon his royal throne, he shall write a copy of this law upon a scroll from the one that is in the custody of the levitical priests.




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