Acts 26:1-32, NLT
Acts of the Apostles 26
1Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak in your defense.”
So Paul, gesturing with his hand, started his defense:
4“As the Jewish leaders are well aware, I was given a thorough Jewish training from my earliest childhood among my own people and in Jerusalem.
9“I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.*26:9 Or Jesus of Nazareth.
12“One day I was on such a mission to Damascus, armed with the authority and commission of the leading priests.
15“‘Who are you, lord?’ I asked.
“And the Lord replied, ‘I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting.
19“And so, King Agrippa, I obeyed that vision from heaven.
24Suddenly, Festus shouted, “Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!”
25But Paul replied, “I am not insane, Most Excellent Festus. What I am saying is the sober truth.
28Agrippa interrupted him. “Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian so quickly?”*26:28 Or “A little more, and your arguments would make me a Christian.”
29Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this audience might become the same as I am, except for these chains.”
30Then the king, the governor, Bernice, and all the others stood and left.
32And Agrippa said to Festus, “He could have been set free if he hadn’t appealed to Caesar.”