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Acts 26:2

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

KJV

περὶ πάντων ὧν ἐγκαλοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων, βασιλεῦ Ἀγρίππα, ἥγημαι ἐμαυτὸν μακάριον ἐπὶ σοῦ μέλλων σήμερον ἀπολογεῖσθαι,

Greek NT

De omnibus quibus accusor a Judæis, rex Agrippa, æstimo me beatum apud te cum sim defensurus me hodie,

Vulgate

I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:

ASV

I think myself happy, O king Agrippa, that I am to answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews.

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

People Herod Agrippa IHerod Agrippa II

In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βασιλεύς
basileus
noun · 115×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
μακάριος
makarios
adjective · 50×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
σήμερον
semeron
adverb · 41×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀπολογέομαι
apologeomai
verb · 10×
Ἀγρίππας
agrippas
noun · 11×
ἐγκαλέω
egkaleo
verb · 7×
ἐμαυτοῦ
emautou
reflexive_pronoun · 37×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἡγέομαι
egeomai
verb · 28×
Ἰουδαῖος
ioudaios
adjective · 193×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: σήμερον ἀπολογεῖσθαι | WH/Treg/NIV: σήμερον ἀπολογεῖσθαι | RP: ἀπολογεῖσθαι σήμερον
  • σήμερον ἀπολογεῖσθαιSBLGNT
  • σήμερον ἀπολογεῖσθαιWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀπολογεῖσθαι σήμερονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Does not behave itself unseemly. Nay, why, says he, do I say, she 'is not puffed up,' when she is so far from that feeling, that in suffering the most shameful things for him whom she loves, she does not even count the thing an unseemliness? Again, he did not say, she suffers unseemliness but bears the shame nobly, but, she does not even entertain any sense at all of the sha…

Cross-references

  • 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:
  • Acts 26:26 — For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.