19“亚基帕王啊！我没有违背这从天上来的异象。20我先在大马士革，然后到耶路撒冷、犹太全境和外族人当中劝人悔改归向上帝，行事为人要与悔改的心相称。21就因为这些事，犹太人在圣殿中抓住我，打算杀我。22然而，我靠着上帝的帮助，到今天还能站在这里向所有尊卑老幼做见证。我讲的不外乎众先知和摩西说过要发生的事，23就是基督必须受害，并首先从死里复活，将光明带给犹太人和外族人。”24这时，非斯都打断保罗的申辩，大声说：“保罗，你疯了！一定是你的学问太大，使你神经错乱了！”25保罗说：“非斯都大人，我没有疯。我讲的话真实、合理。26王了解这些事，所以我才敢在王面前直言。我相信这些事没有一件瞒得过王，因为这些事并非暗地里做的。27亚基帕王啊，你信先知吗？我知道你信。”28亚基帕王对保罗说：“难道你想三言两语就说服我成为基督徒吗？”29保罗说：“不论话多话少，我求上帝不仅使你，也使今天在座的各位都能像我一样，只是不要像我这样带着锁链。”30亚基帕王、总督、百妮姬及其他在座的人都站起来，31走到一边商量说：“这人没有做什么该判死刑或监禁的事。”32亚基帕王对非斯都说：“这人要是没有向凯撒上诉，已经可以获释了。”
English Standard Version
Paul’s Defense Before Agrippa
1So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:2“I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,3especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.4“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.5They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.6And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,7to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!8Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?9“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.10And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.11And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Paul Tells of His Conversion
12“In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.13At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.14And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,* ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’15And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.16But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,17delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’19“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,20but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.21For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.22To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:23that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”24And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”25But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.26For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”28And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?”*29And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”30Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them.31And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”32And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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