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And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said vnto me, I am Iesus of Nazareth who thou persecutest.

But when Paul perceiued that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, hee cryed out in the Councill, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the sonne of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead, I am called in question.

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

I thinke my selfe happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answere for my selfe this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes:

And now I stand, and am iudged for the hope of the promise made of God vnto our fathers:

Vnto which promise our twelue tribes instantly seruing God day and night, hope to come: For which hopes sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Iewes.

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And hee said, I am Iesus whom thou persecutest.

But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speake foorth the words of trueth and sobernesse.

For the King knoweth of these things, before whom also I speake freely: for I am perswaded, that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in a corner.

And Paul said, I would to God, that not onely thou, but also all that heare mee this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

For there stood by me this night the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue,

For this cause therefore haue I called for you, to see you, and to speake with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chaine.

I am debter both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, both to the wise, and to the vnwise.

So, as much as in mee is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.

For I am not ashamed of the Gopel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation, to euery one that beleeueth, to the Iew first, and also to the Greeke.

For if the trueth of God hath more abounded through my lye vnto his glory; why yet am I also iudged as a sinner?

For wee know that the Law is spirituall: but I am carnall, sold vnder sinne.

O wretched man that I am: who shall deliuer me from the body of this death?

For I am perswaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbidde. For I also am an Israelite of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin.