Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul, having stretched forth his hand, made a defense.
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Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man has regarded,
Proverbs 18:17He who pleads his case first [seems] just, but his neighbor comes and searches him out.
John 7:51Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?
Acts 22:1Men, brothers, and fathers, hear now my defense to you.
Acts 26:2Concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews, king Agrippa, I consider myself blessed, being about to make my defense before thee 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 →