Acts 26:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: ”

• Acts 26:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And now I stand - I stand before the tribunal. I am arraigned. And am judged - Am tried with reference to being judged. I am undergoing a trial on the point in which all my nation are agreed....

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• Acts 26:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (3) And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: (3) There are three chief and principal witnesses of true doctrine: God, the true fathers, and the consent...

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• Acts 26:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Paul Speaks before Agrippa. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even afte...

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• Acts 26:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  judged . Greek. krino . App-122. for . upon (the ground of). Greek. epi . App-104. God . App-98. unto . The texts read eis . App-104.

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• Acts 26:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 6. For the hope of the promise. He doth now descend into the cause, to wit, that he laboreth for the principal point of faith. And though he seem to have spoken generally of the resurrecti...

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• Acts 26:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: For the hope of the promise - This does not appear to mean, the hope of the Messiah, as some have imagined, but...

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• Acts 26:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers - that is, for b...

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• Acts 26:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Defence before Agrippa 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his who...

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• Acts 26:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For the hope of the promise made of God. The words include the whole expectation of a divine kingdom of which the Christ was to be the head, as well as the specific belief in a resurrection of the...

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• Acts 26:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Paul Permitted to Speak for Himself Acts 26:1-11 Though Paul's defense before Agrippa is in substance the same as that from the castle stairs at Jerusalem, it differs in the extended descriptio...

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• Acts 26:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense...

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• Acts 26:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...

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• Acts 26:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now I stand, and am judged ,.... Before the Roman governor, and in the presence of Agrippa: for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers ; either for the hope of righteousness, lif...

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• Acts 26:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: Ver. 6. For the hope of the promise ] The goodness of his cause made much for his comfort. It is one thing...

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• Acts 26:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My manner of life from my youth, which was at first Την απ ' αρχης, which from the beginning , that is, from the beginning of my youth; was among mine own nation at Jerusalem He was not born amo...

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• Acts 26:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert i...

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• Acts 26:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul's Fifth Defence.       1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, a...

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• Acts 26:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I stand; the posture of such as are held for guilty. The hope of the promise; St. Paul brings in the discourse of the resurrection, which, as hath been observed, is the foundation of all religion...

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• Acts 26:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers, to which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this...

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• Acts 26:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 26:1 . Agrippa said unto Paul .—On this occasion Agrippa, not Festus, presided over the tribunal. The “stretching forth” of the hand was the gesture of an orator preparing...

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• Acts 26:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject...

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• Acts 26:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...

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• Acts 26:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 26:1 . Then Paul stretched forth the hand, the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the c...

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• Acts 26:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Paul before Agrippa Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the...

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• Acts 26:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 26:1 And for then, A.V.; his for the, A.V.; made his defense for answered for himself, A.V. Agrippa said . It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus to...

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• Acts 26:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 4. My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

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• Acts 26:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:11 ; 1 Peter 1:12 ; 2 Samuel 7:12 ; 2 Samuel 7:13 ; Acts 13:32 ; Acts 13:33 ; Acts 3:24 ; Acts 23:6 ; Acts 24:15 ; Acts 24:21 ; Acts 26:8 ; Acts 28:20 ; Amos 9:11 ; Amos 9:12...

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• Acts 26:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And now — Acts 26:6-8 are in a kind of parenthesis, and show that what the Pharisees rightly taught concerning the resurrection, Paul likewise asserted at this day. Acts 26:9 connected with Ac...

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