Acts 26:4

All the Jews know my life story—from my earliest days beginning in my own country and then in Jerusalem.

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In The King James Version

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

In Context

3particularly because you are an expert in all Jewish issues and customs. I beg your patient indulgence as you listen to what I have to say.

5They have known me for a long time and can verify, if they choose to, that I have followed the religious school that observes our faith in the strictest way—I lived as a Pharisee.

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Cross References

Galatians 1:13You heard how I behaved as a follower of the Jewish religion—how I fanatically persecuted God's church, savagely trying to destroy it.

2 Timothy 3:10But you know all about my teaching and behavior, and my aim in life. You know my trust in God and my love. You know what I've had to endure—

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 →

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