Acts 26:1
Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
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Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
Proverbs 18:17He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
John 7:51“Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
Acts 22:1“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
Acts 26:2“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things the Jews accuse me of,
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 →