Acts 26:1
Agrippa then said to Paul, “You are free to speak on your own behalf.” With a sweep of his arm, Paul began his defense.
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Proverbs 1:24For I have called you, but you refused to listen; I reached out my hand to you, but you didn't care.
Proverbs 18:17The first person to plead a case sounds right until someone comes to cross-examine them.
John 7:51“Does our law condemn a man without a hearing and without finding out what he actually did?”
Acts 22:1“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “Please listen as I give my defense before you.”
Acts 26:2“I am delighted, King Agrippa, to make my defense before you today regarding everything I am accused of 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 →