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Acts 26:5

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having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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Acts 26:5 in other translations

having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Acts 26:5 · American Standard Version

Acts 26:5 in context

  1. 3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
  2. 4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
  3. 5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  4. 6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
  5. 7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!