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Acts 26:5

Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

KJV

προγινώσκοντές με ἄνωθεν, ἐὰν θέλωσι μαρτυρεῖν, ὅτι κατὰ τὴν ἀκριβεστάτην αἵρεσιν τῆς ἡμετέρας θρησκίας ἔζησα Φαρισαῖος.

Greek NT

præscientes me ab initio (si velint testimonium perhibere) quoniam secundum certissimam sectam nostræ religionis vixi pharisæus.

Vulgate

having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

ASV

Having known me from the beginning (if they will give testimony) that according to the most sure sect of our religion I lived, a Pharisee.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
αἵρεσις
airesis
noun · 9×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
θρησκεία
threskeia
noun · 4×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
μαρτυρέω
martureo
verb · 76×
προγινώσκω
proginosko
verb · 5×
ἀκριβέστατος
akribestatos
adjective · 1×
ἄνωθεν
anothen
adverb · 13×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἡμέτερος
emeteros
possessive_pronoun · 7×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Acts 22:3 — I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was
  • Acts 22:3 — I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was
  • Acts 22:5 — As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jer
  • Acts 23:6 — But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection o
  • Acts 23:6 — But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection o
  • Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
  • Gal 1:14 — And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
  • John 1:24 — And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
  • Phil 3:6 — Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.