Acts 26:9
Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God raises the dead?
Cross References
John 15:21But all these things they will do to you because of my name, because they have not known him who sent me.
Acts 3:6But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.
Acts 21:13And Paul answered, What are ye doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I fare ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Acts 24:5For we have found this man a plague, who even instigates sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
Galatians 1:13For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it.
1 Timothy 1:13the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.
Matthew Henry on Acts 26:2-12
Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: 2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: 3 Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. 4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among… Read the whole commentary →