Acts 26:1
Then Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching forth his hand, began to make his answer.
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Proverbs 1:24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
Proverbs 18:17The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.
John 7:51Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?
Acts 22:1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you.
Acts 26:2I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused by 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 →