Some of the crowd concluded it was about Alexander because the Jews had pushed him to the front. Alexander, gesturing with his hand, was wanting to make a defense before the public assembly.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

came to me and stood beside me and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up and saw him.

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

“Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,