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Acts 26:3 KJV
Acts · chapter 26 · verse 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.Acts 26:3 · King James Version
Acts 26:3 in context
1Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
2I 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:
3Especially 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.
4My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Especiallymalistaespecially, chiefly, most of all, above allG3122 →
- questionszētēmaa question, debate, about the lawG2213 →
- customsethoscustom, usage prescribed by law, institute, prescription, riteG1485 →
- beseechdeomaito want, lack, to desire, long for, to ask, beg, the thing asked for, to pray, make…G1189 →
- expertgnōstēsan expert, a connoisseurG1109 →
- experttenot only... but also, both... and, as... soG5037 →
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Agrippa was the most honourable person in the assembly, having the title of king bestowed upon him, though otherwise having only the power of other governors under the emperor, and, though not here superior, yet senior, to Festus;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11