Acts 26:1
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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Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 18:17He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
John 7:51Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Acts 22:1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts 26:2I 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:
Matthew Henry on Acts 26:1
We left Paul at the bar, and Festus, and Agrippa, and Bernice, and all the great men of the city of Cæsarea, upon the bench, or about it, waiting to hear what he had to say for himself. Now in this chapter we have, I. The account he gives of himself, in answer to the calumnies of the Jews. And in this, 1. His humble address to king Agrippa, and the compliment he passed upon him, ver. 1-3 . 2. His account of his origin, and education, his profession as a Pharisee, and his adherence still to that which was then the… Read the whole commentary →