• Παῦλον — SBLGNT
• Παῦλον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• + ἔφη — Robinson-Pierpont

• ποιῆσαι — SBLGNT
• ποιῆσαι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
• γενέσθαι — Robinson-Pierpont

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…

The words of the text are an answer which King Agrippa made to the Apostle Paul, who in the preceding verses had been recounting his experience and defending himself. The reply is at once moving and tragic: "Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." Many are in this same condition — they are almost, but not altogether, Christians.

Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, t…

We will that the people henceforth take the name "Christian," discarding all party names and denominational labels, for Christ is not divided. There is no authority for sectarian names in the New Testament, and they serve only to perpetuate divisions among the people of God.

Lucian describes the Christians as people who worship a man who was crucified in Palestine and who introduced new rites among them. They revere him as a lawgiver and live according to his teachings. They despise death and are willingly devoted to their faith. This passage, though mocking in tone, provides independent pagan testimony to the historical existence of Christ, the fa…