And also some of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. And some were saying, "What does this seed-picker wish to say?" But others [said], "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was preaching the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

Then as Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the commander, "Is it permitted from me to speak to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek?

Are you not then the Egyptian who rose up before these days, and led forth the four thousand men of the assassins into the wilderness?"

And as he was spending many days there, Festus laid before the king the charges against Paul, saying: "There is a certain man who was left a prisoner by Felix,

about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, when I was in Jerusalem, asking for punishment against him.

but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

About whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you King Agrippa, in order that when this hearing is finished I may have something to write.

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

Knowing, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but we have been made known to God. And I also hope to have been made known in your consciences.

But even if I [am] unskilled in speech, yet [I am] not [inferior] in knowledge, but in every [way] I was made known to you in all things.

And you observe and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great multitude, saying that they are not gods which are made by human hands.

in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which are in Christ.

And they glorified God in me.

For we do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

who delivered us from so great a death, and is delivering [us]; in whom we trust that He will still deliver [us],

always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body.

For we who are living are always handed over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifest in our body.

Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter."

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

I [affirm], by my boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord.

The Lord has chastened me sore; but He has not given me up to death.

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we may not be condemned with the world.