Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, “It is permitted to you to speak for yourself”; then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defense:
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Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and you refuse, || I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
Proverbs 18:17The first in his own cause [seems] righteous, || [But] his neighbor comes and has searched him.
John 7:51“Does our law judge the Man, if it may not hear from Him first, and know what He does?”
Acts 22:1“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.”
Acts 26:2“Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, King Agrippa, I have thought myself blessed, being about to make a defense before you today,
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 →