Acts 26
Treated in 45 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they turn from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, and so receive forgiveness of their sins and a share in the inheritance among those sanctified by faith in me.' 12
- 26:7 It is the promise our twelve tribes hope to see fulfilled as they worship God with devotion night and day. It is for this hope, Your Majesty, that I am accused by Jews. 5
- 26:28 Agrippa said to Paul, "In so short a time you are persuading me to become a Christian!" 5
- 26:24 As Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus called out loudly, "You are out of your mind, Paul! All your great learning is pushing you into madness." 4
- 26:8 Why do any of you think it unbelievable that God raises the dead? 3
- 26:19 And so, King Agrippa, I did not resist the heavenly vision. 3
- 26:20 I went first to the people of Damascus, then to Jerusalem and the whole country of Judea, and to the Gentiles too, and I told them all to repent and turn to God, and to live in a way that proves their repentance. 3
- 26:5 They have known me a long time, and if they were willing they could testify that I lived as a Pharisee, in the strictest sect of our religion. 2
- 26:6 And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise God made to our ancestors. 2
- 26:17 I will keep you safe from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 2
- 26:25 "I am not mad, most excellent Festus," Paul replied. "The words I am speaking are truth and sound sense. 2
- 26:1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak on your own behalf." So Paul held out his hand and began to make his defense: 1
- 26:2 "King Agrippa, I count myself fortunate that it is before you that I am to answer today for all the charges some Jews bring against me, 1
- 26:3 especially as you know well all the customs and disputed questions of the Jews. So I ask you to hear me out with patience. 1
- 26:4 All Jews know how I have lived from my youth, from the very start of my life among my own people and in Jerusalem. 1
- 26:9 I myself was once convinced that I had to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth, 1
- 26:12 That was my mission when I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 1
- 26:14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in Hebrew: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.' 1
- 26:26 The king understands these matters, and that is why I can speak to him so openly. I am sure that nothing of this has passed him by. After all, it did not happen in some out-of-the-way corner. 1
- 26:27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe them." 1
- 26:29 Paul answered, "Whether it takes little or much, my prayer to God is that not you alone but every one of my hearers today would come to be as I am, though without these chains." 1
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Where it is preached
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Discourse 5 cites Acts 26:5
…and before King Agrippa, “After the straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.” (Acts 26:5.) And the whole body of the Scribes generally esteemed and acted in concert with the…
- The Key Teachings of Gareth Evans ·
The Hope of His Calling cites ACTS 26:6
…And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers. ACTS 26:6 Paul was not saying, Evans notes, that he hoped there might be a resurrection and that he…
- Communion with God ·
Other consequential affections cites Acts xxvi. 7
…works of it, Rom. ix. 32, — instantly serving God day and night, to obtain the promise, Acts xxvi. 7, — living in all good conscience from his youth, Acts xxiii., — all the while very…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Being of God cites Acts 26:7
…of the Messiah. Heb 10:19. To worship him with the utmost zeal and intenseness of soul. Acts 26:7. ‘Our twelve tribes instantly serving God day and night,’ with intenseness of spirit; not…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Knowledge of God cites Acts 26:7
…thoughts? How would it animate and spirit duty? It would make us put fire to the incense. Acts 26:7. ‘The tribes instantly served God day and night,’ omnibus viribus, with the utmost zeal…
- Revelations of Divine Love ·
Glossary cites Acts xxvi. 8
…Honest = fair, seemly. If = that (chap. xxxii., “Thou shalt see—if all—shall be well” Acts xxvi. 8). Impropriated (impropried) to = appropriated to. Indifferent (to thy sight, chap. li.) =…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.2 Repentance cites Acts 26: 9
…conversion, verily thought he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus (Acts 26: 9); but, when he became a penitent, he was of another mind. ‘I count all things but loss…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
The Resurrection of the Body of Jesus and of Our Bodies cites Acts 26:12
…on the Damascus road. In Paul's description of what he saw on that occasion, as given in Acts 26:12, 13, we read, "Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of…
- Talks to the Farmer ·
The Sheep Before the Shearers cites Acts 26:14
…goad into itself and bleeds. So it is with us. It is hard “to kick against the goads” (Acts 26:14, ESV). We suffer more through rebellion than we would if we submitted to the will of God.…
- Communion with God ·
That this communion is distinctly with the Father, Son, and Spirit cites Acts xxvi. 17
…of his own will, by his Spirit; and in which work he employs the ministers of the gospel, Acts xxvi. 17, 18. [2.] Unto the Son. The Father proclaims him from heaven to be the great teacher, in…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Sermon IV cites Acts xxvi. 17
…it, so will he convert and save men by his ministers, who are the lights of the world, Acts xxvi. 17, 18. Matt. v. 14. When he had miraculously humbled Paul, he sendeth him to Ananias, Acts…
- The Ten Commandments ·
1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Acts 26: 18
…is done by the preaching of the Word. ‘To turn them from the power of Satan unto God.’ Acts 26: 18. (3) The bringing of Israel out of the house of bondage was a type of their being…
- Communion with God ·
Of communion with Christ in privileges cites Acts xxvi. 18
…“we have obtained an inheritance;” which he also places with the righteousness of faith, Acts xxvi. 18. Now, by this righteousness, grace, and inheritance, is not only intended that…
- The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith ·
Sanctification cites Acts 26:18
…ninth and final part of the answer to the question of how we are sanctified, is found in Acts 26:18, "To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of…
- Holy in Christ ·
Holiness and Faith cites Acts xxvi. 18
…remission of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.’—Acts xxvi. 18. The more we study Scripture in the light of the Holy Spirit, or practise the Christian…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Acts 26: 18
…rocky heart; it beats off our fetters, and turns us from the ‘power of Satan unto God.’ Acts 26: 18. The word is the seed of regeneration, and the engine of salvation. James 1: 18. Hear the…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Acts 26: 18
…work is to redeem spiritual captives, and turn men ‘from the power of Satan unto God.’ Acts 26: 18. Their work is ‘to enlighten them who sit in the region of darkness,’ and make them…
- All Things for Good ·
Exhortations to those who are called cites Acts xxvi. 18
…in scarlet are not objects of envy, but pity; they are under “the power of Satan” (Acts xxvi. 18). They tread every day on the brink of the bottomless pit; and what if death should cast…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
Aggressive Christianity cites ACTS 26:18
…eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. ACTS 26:18 And she pointed out that the early church did not spread through apostles alone. When the…
- The Key Teachings of Richard Baxter ·
A Call to the Unconverted cites ACTS 26:18
…eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. ACTS 26:18 God’s work and ours Baxter held both sides firmly, and was attacked from both directions…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.3 The Word cites Acts 26: 18
…reformation. ‘To open their eyes, and turn them from the power of Satan unto God.’ Acts 26: 18. The opening of their eyes denotes illumination; and turning them from Satan to God…
- Holiness ·
Introduction cites Acts xxvi. 18
…may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified.” (Compare Acts xxvi. 18 with Acts xx. 32.) As to the phrase “holiness by faith,” I find it nowhere in the New…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Misery by the Fall cites Acts 26:18
…gospel looses them. Paul’s preaching was ‘to turn men from the power of Satan to God.’ Acts 26:18. The gospel star leads you to Christ; and if you get Christ, then you are made free…
- All Things for Good ·
Effectual calling cites Acts xxvi. 19
…God called Paul, he answered to the call. “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts xxvi. 19). God rides forth conquering in the chariot of His gospel; He makes the blind eyes see…
- Godliness ·
Repentance cites ACTS 26. 19
…the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.”—ACTS 26. 19, 20. In the mouths of three witnesses—John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, and the Apostle…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Effectual Calling cites Acts 26:19
…of religion, dost thou run at God’s call? ‘I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.’ Acts 26:19. If God calls to duties contrary to flesh and blood, we obey his voice in everything…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
Repentance cites ACTS 26:20
…the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. ACTS 26:20 The first sermon in Catherine Booth’s book Godliness is on repentance, and the placing is…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Acts 26:20
…for repentance,” Matt. 3:8. Which was agreeable to the practice of the Apostle Paul; see Acts 26:20. Pardon and mercy are from time to time promised to him who has this evidence of true…
- Old Paths ·
Repentance cites Acts xxvi. 20
…that he had showed all men that they should “repent, and do works meet for repentance.” (Acts xxvi. 20.)—What was the account given by the believers at Jerusalem of the conversion of the…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the First cites Acts xxvi. 24
…and a “setter forth of strange gods,” were not of exalted minds. Portius Festus, (Acts xxvi. 24.) calls out that Paul is “mad,” on account of his preaching eternal life. What does Pliny…
- Practical Religion ·
Zeal cites Acts xxvi. 24
…of zealous people what Festus said of Paul: "They are beside themselves,—they are mad." (Acts xxvi. 24) But zeal is a subject which no reader of the Bible has any right to pass over. If we…
- Real Questions – Book 3 ·
What If My Friends Think Christianity Is Stupid? cites Acts 26:24–25
…“I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety” (Acts 26:24–25). He didn’t get angry. He didn’t sulk. He just said, politely, that what he believed was…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
The Nature of Enthusiasm cites Acts 26:24
…Nature of Enthusiasm “And Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself.” Acts 26:24. 1. And so say all the world, the men who know not God, of all that are of Paul’s…
- The Key Teachings of Charles G. Finney ·
Be Filled with the Spirit cites ACTS 26:25
…I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. ACTS 26:25 But you will have peace with God, flowing like a river, and peace of conscience. You will…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VI. Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation cites Acts 26:25
…children of Heth, were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. So Paul honored Festus: Acts 26:25, “I am not mad, most noble Festus.” Not only will Christian humility dispose persons to…
- Real Questions – Book 1 ·
Isn’t Believing in God Just Wishful Thinking? cites Acts 26:26
…the dead. Christianity has never asked people to believe in something “done in a corner” (Acts 26:26). Peter put it bluntly: “we did not follow cleverly devised fables” (2 Peter 1:16). He…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Christ will not quench small and weak beginnings cites Acts xxvi. 27
…of men, Saint Paul, labours to catch his judge, I know thou believest the prophets, Acts xxvi. 27; and then wisheth all saving good, but not bonds; he might have added them too, but he…
- The Key Teachings of John Wesley ·
The Almost Christian cites ACTS 26:28
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ACTS 26:28 On 25 July 1741 Wesley preached again before the University of Oxford, and chose for his…
- The Key Teachings of George Whitefield ·
The Almost Christian cites ACTS 26:28
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ACTS 26:28 King Agrippa sat in state and listened to a prisoner in chains tell how Christ had met…
- The Key Teachings of A. W. Tozer ·
The Old Cross and the New cites ACTS 26:28
…king’s reply. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ACTS 26:28 Agrippa was moved, and moved deeply. He was nearly persuaded. But nearly is not enough…
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