Lisa Desjardins's Highlights
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:26 NASB
"For the king aknows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:25 NASB
But Paul said, "I am not out of my mind, amost excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:24 NASB
While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great alearning is driving you mad."
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:23 NASB
athat the Christ was to suffer, and that bby reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim clight both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:22 NASB
"So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day atestifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what bthe Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:21 NASB
"For this reason some Jews aseized me in the temple and tried bto put me to death.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:20 NASB
but kept declaring both ato those of Damascus first, and also bat Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even cto the Gentiles, that they should drepent and turn to God, performing deeds eappropriate to repentance.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:19 NASB
"So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:18 NASB
to aopen their eyes so that they may turn from bdarkness to light and from the dominion of cSatan to God, that they may receive dforgiveness of sins and an einheritance among those who have been sanctified by ffaith in Me.'
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:17 NASB
arescuing you bfrom the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:16 NASB
'But get up and astand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to bappoint you a cminister and da witness not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:15 NASB
"And I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:14 NASB
"And when we had aall fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the bHebrew dialect, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:13 NASB
at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:12 NASB
"While so engaged aas I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:11 NASB
"And aas I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being bfuriously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them ceven to foreign cities.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:10 NASB
"And this is just what I adid in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having breceived authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I ccast my vote against them.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:9 NASB
"So then, aI thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to bthe name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:8 NASB
"Why is it considered incredible among you people aif God does raise the dead?
Aug 23
Lisa Desjardins
highlighted Acts 26:7 NASB
the promise ato which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God night and day. And for this bhope, O King, I am being caccused by Jews.
Aug 23