So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
Acts 26:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Especially] because you are so fully and unusually conversant with all the Jewish customs and controversies; therefore, I beg you to hear me patiently. American Standard Version (1901) especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. Common English Bible This is because you understand well all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I ask you to listen to me patiently. Catholic Public Domain Version especially since you know everything that pertains to the Jews, both customs and questions. Because of this, I beg you to listen to me patiently. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Especially as thou knowest all, both customs and questions that are among the Jews: Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. |
So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moshe, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.
When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Sha'ul answered, *Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
*I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Judeans,
For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.
which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Judeans, King Agrippa!
It happened that after three days Sha'ul called together those who were the Jewish leaders. When they had come together, he said to them, *I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Yerushalayim into the hands of the Romans,
For we have heard him say that this Yeshua of Natzeret will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moshe delivered to us.*
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of [that which is] before the Kohanim the Levites: