¹⁶But get up and stand on your feet, because for this reason I have appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and witness both to the things in which you saw me and to the things in which I will appear to you, ¹⁷rescuing you from the people and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

¹⁹“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God, doing deeds worthy of repentance. ²¹On account of these things the Jews seized me in^d the temple courts^* and^* were attempting to kill me.^* ²²Therefore I have experienced help from God until this day, and^* I stand here testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what both the prophets and Moses have said were going to happen, ²³that the Christ^e was to suffer and that as the first of the resurrection from the dead, he was going to proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles.”

²⁴And as^* he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “You are out of your mind, Paul! Your^* great learning is driving^f you insane!”^g ²⁵But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking words of truth and rationality. ²⁶For the king knows about these things, to whom also I am speaking freely, for I am not convinced that these things in any way have escaped^h his notice, because this wasⁱ not done^j in a corner. ²⁷Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe.” ²⁸But Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”^k ²⁹And Paul replied, “I pray to God, whether in a short time or in a long time, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today may become such people as I also am, except for these bonds!”

³⁰Both the king and the governor got up, and Bernice and those who were sitting with them. ³¹And as they^* were going out, they were talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.” ³²And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

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Footnotes

dSome manuscripts have “while I was in”
*Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“seized”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“have experienced”) has been translated as a finite verb
eOr “Messiah”
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was saying … in his defense”)
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
fLiterally “is turning”
gLiterally “to madness”
hSome manuscripts have “that any of these things in any way has escaped”
iLiterally “is”
jLiterally “having been done”
kOr “In a short time you are persuading me to become a Christian”
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were going out”)