Acts 26:9
I therefore thought to myself, that I ought to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God, raises the dead?
Cross References
John 15:21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me.
Acts 3:6And Peter said: Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, rise up and walk.
Acts 21:13Then answered Paul: What mean ye, to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a pest, and exciting disturbance among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;
Galatians 1:13For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it,
1 Timothy 1:13who was formerly a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and overbearing. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief;
Matthew Henry on Acts 26:2-12
Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 2 I 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: 3 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. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among… Read the whole commentary →