Acts 26

Question 1

Acts 26:1

Answer 1

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” So Paul motioned with his hand and began his defense:

Question 2

Acts 26:2

Answer 2

“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today as I make my defense against all the accusations of the Jews,

Question 3

Acts 26:3

Answer 3

and especially so because you are well acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.

Question 4

Acts 26:4

Answer 4

“The Jews all know the way I have lived ever since I was a child, from the beginning of my life in my own country, and also in Jerusalem.

Question 5

Acts 26:5

Answer 5

They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

Question 6

Acts 26:6

Answer 6

And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our fathers that I am on trial today.

Question 7

Acts 26:7

Answer 7

This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. O king, it is because of this hope that the Jews are accusing me.

Question 8

Acts 26:8

Answer 8

Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Question 9

Acts 26:9

Answer 9

“I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Question 10

Acts 26:10

Answer 10

And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

Question 11

Acts 26:11

Answer 11

Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. In my obsession against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Question 12

Acts 26:12

Answer 12

“On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

Question 13

Acts 26:13

Answer 13

About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.

Question 14

Acts 26:14

Answer 14

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Question 15

Acts 26:15

Answer 15

“Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.

Question 16

Acts 26:16

Answer 16

‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you.

Question 17

Acts 26:17

Answer 17

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

Question 18

Acts 26:18

Answer 18

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Question 19

Acts 26:19

Answer 19

“So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.

Question 20

Acts 26:20

Answer 20

First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.

Question 21

Acts 26:21

Answer 21

That is why the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

Question 22

Acts 26:22

Answer 22

But I have had God’s help to this very day, and so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen–

Question 23

Acts 26:23

Answer 23

that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”

Question 24

Acts 26:24

Answer 24

At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane.”

Question 25

Acts 26:25

Answer 25

“I am not insane, most excellent Festus,” Paul replied. “What I am saying is true and reasonable.

Question 26

Acts 26:26

Answer 26

The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.

Question 27

Acts 26:27

Answer 27

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”

Question 28

Acts 26:28

Answer 28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?”

Question 29

Acts 26:29

Answer 29

Paul replied, “Short time or long–I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”

Question 30

Acts 26:30

Answer 30

The king rose, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them.

Question 31

Acts 26:31

Answer 31

They left the room, and while talking with one another, they said, “This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.”

Question 32

Acts 26:32

Answer 32

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”