Acts 26:5

Acts 22:5; Acts 23:6; Acts 24:14; Acts 24:5; Philippians 3:5; Philippians 3:6

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which knew me - Who were well acquainted with me. From the beginning - ἄνωθεν anōthen. Formerly; or from the very commencement of my c...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Which (a) knew me from (b) the beginning, if they would testify, that after the (c) most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. (a) That...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Which knew me . Knowing me before. Greek. proginosko. App-132. from the beginning . Greek. anothen. See note on Luke 1:3 . would . be willi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. After the most strait...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

After the most straitest sect— The strictest sect. So Josephus, in a variety of places, calls the sect of the Pharisees, almost in the very wor...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. Which knew me from...
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....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

See Acts 22:3 ; Acts 23:6 ; Philippians 3:5 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

After the most straitest sect. — Better, most rigid, or most precise. The Greek does not contain anything answering to the double superlative o...
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 a...
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...
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)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which knew me from the beginning ,.... From his youth, from his first coming to Jerusalem: if they would testify ; what they know, and speak out t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. Ver. 5. After the...
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...
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, es...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Fifth Defence. 1 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This heresy, sect, opinion, or way of the Pharisees, St. Paul rigthly commends, if we consider it comparatively with the other sects of the Sadducees...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, having knowledge of...
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” o...
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 Fest...
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 remarkab...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 26:1 . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I...
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 aud...
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 oppo...
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...
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;
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If they would testify — But they would not, for they well knew what weight his former life must add to his present testimony.

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

Related Commentaries of Acts 26:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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