¹Then Agrippa [Hero like] said unto Sha’ul [desired] , youi are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Sha’ul [desired] stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:

²I think myself happy, king Agrippa [Hero like] , because I shall answer for myself this day before youi touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] :

³Especially [because I know] youi to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] : wherefore I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi to hear me patiently.

⁴My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , know all the Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] ;

⁵Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee [separatist] .

⁶And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God-The Father unto our fathers:

⁷Unto which [promise] our twelve tribes, instantly serving [God-The Father] day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa [Hero like] , I am accused of the Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] .

⁸Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God-The Father should raise the dead?

⁹I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Yeshua [God is Salvation] of Natzeret [one separated] .

¹⁰Which thing I also did in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] : and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against [them] .

¹¹And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities.

¹²Whereupon as I went to Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] with authority and commission from the chief priests,

¹³At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

¹⁴And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] tongue, Sha’ul [desired] , Sha’ul [desired] , why persecute youi me? [it is] hard for youi to kick against the pricks.

¹⁵And I said, Who are youi , Lord - Kurios? And he said, I am Yeshua [God is Salvation] whom youi persecute.

¹⁶But rise, and stand upon youri feet: for I have appeared unto youi for this purpose, to make youi a minister and a witness both of these things which youi have seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto youi ;

¹⁷Delivering youi from the people, and [from] the Goyim [Gentiles] , unto whom now I send youi ,

¹⁸To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan [the adversary] unto God-The Father, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

¹⁹Whereupon, O king Agrippa [Hero like] , I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

²⁰But showed first unto them of Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] , and at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] , and throughout all the coasts of Y’hudah [praised] , and [then] to the Goyim [Gentiles] , that they should repent and turn to God-The Father, and do works meet for repentance.

²¹For these causes the Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] caught me in the temple, and went about to kill [me] .

²²Having therefore obtained help of God-The Father, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] did say should come:

²³That Moshiach [Messiah] should suffer (allow, to let, permit) , [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Goyim [Gentiles] .

²⁴And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus [festival] said with a loud voice, Sha’ul [desired] , youi are beside yourself; much learning does make youi mad.

²⁵But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus [festival] ; but speak forth the words of tand soberness.

²⁶For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

²⁷King Agrippa [Hero like] , believe youi the prophets? I know that youi believe.

²⁸Then Agrippa [Hero like] said unto Sha’ul [desired] , Almost youi persuade me to be a Christian [Messianic - Follower of Messiah] .

²⁹And Sha’ul [desired] said, I would to God-The Father, that not only youi , but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

³⁰And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice [bring victory] , and they that sat with them:

³¹And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

³²Then said Agrippa [Hero like] unto Festus [festival] , This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar [venerable] .