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Acts 26:1

Weymouth NT

Then Agrippa said to Paul, »You have permission to speak about yourself.« So Paul, with outstretched arm, proceeded to make his defence.

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»Does our Law,« he asked, »judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?«

»Brethren and fathers,« he said, »listen to my defence which I now make before you.«

My reply was that it is not the custom among the Romans to give up any one for punishment before the accused has had his accusers face to face, and has had an opportunity of defending himself against the charge which has been brought against him.

For, when sending a prisoner to Rome, it seems to me to be absurd not to state the charges against him.«

»As regards all the accusations brought against me by the Jews,« he said, »I think myself fortunate, King Agrippa, in being about to defend myself to-day before you,

»Go,« replied the Lord; »he is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My name to the Gentiles and to kings and to the descendants of Israel.

While as to Israel he says, »All day long I have stretched out My arms to a self-willed and fault-finding people.«




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