Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: thou arte permitted to speake for thy selfe. A   Then Paul stretched forth the honde / ∧ answered for him selfe. I thynke my selfe happy kynge Agrippa / because I shall answere this daye before the / of all the thinges wherof I am accused of þe; Iewes / namely because thou arte experte in all customes and questions / which are amonge the Iewes. Wherfore I beseche the to heare me paciently.

My lyvynge of a chylde / which was at the fyrst am&obar;ge myne awne nacion at Ierusalem B    knowe all the Iewes which knew me from þe; beginnynge / yf they wolde testifie it. For after the most straytest secte of oure laye / lyved I a pharisaye. And now I stond ∧ am iudged for the hope of the promes made of God vnto oure fathers: vnto which promes / oure .xii. tribes instantly servynge God daye ∧ nyght / hope to come. For which hopes sake / kynge Agrippa / am I accused of the Iewes. Why shuld it be thought a thinge vncredible vnto you / C   that god shuld rayse agayne the deed?

I also verely thought in my selfe / that I ought to do many c&obar;trary thinges / clene agaynst the name of Iesus of Nazareth: which thinge I also dyd in Ierusalem. Where many of the sainctes I shut vp in preson / ∧ had receaved auctorite of þe; hye prestes. And wh&ebar; they were put to deeth / I gave the sentence. And I punysshed them ofte in every synagoge / and compelled them to blaspheme: ∧ was yet more mad apon them / and persecuted th&ebar; /

even vnto straunge cities. About the which thinges as I went to Damasco with auctorite and licence of the hye Prestes / even at myddaye (o kynge) I sawe in þe; waye a lyght from heven / above the brightnes of the sunne / shyne rounde about me and them which iorneyed with me.

D   When we were all fallen to the erth / I hearde a voyce speakynge vnto me / ∧ sayinge in þe; Hebrue tonge: Saul / Saul / why persecutest thou me? It is harde for the to kicke agaynste the pricke. And I sayde: Who arte thou lorde? And he sayde I am Iesus whom thou persecutest. But ryse ∧ stond vp on thy fete. For I have apered vnto the for this purpose / to make the a minister ∧ a witnes / both of tho thinges which thou hast sene / and of tho thinges in the which I will appere vnto the / delyverynge the from the people / and from þe; gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the / to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght / ∧ from the power of Satan vnto God / that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inherita&ubar;ce amonge th&ebar; which ^note are sanctified by fayth in me.

E   Wherfore kynge Agrippa / I was not disobedient vnto the hevenly vision: but shewed fyrst vnto them of Damasco / and at Ierusalem / and thorow out all the costes of Iewry / and to the gentyls / that they shuld repent / ∧ turne to God / and do the ryght workes of repentaunce. For this cause the Iewes caught me in the temple / and went about to kyll me.

Neverthelesse I obtayned helpe of God / ∧ c&obar;tynew vnto this daye witnessyng bothe to small and to greate saying none other thinges / F   then those which the prophetes and Moses dyd saye shuld come / that Christ shulde suffre / ∧ that he shuld be the fyrst that shulde ryse from deeth / and shuld shewe lyght vnto the people / and the gentyls.

As he thus answered for him selfe: Festus sayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte besides thy selfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad. And Paul sayde: I am not mad most dere Festus: but speake the wordes of trueth ∧ sobernes. The kynge knoweth of these thinges / before whom I speke frely: nether thynke I that eny of these thinges are hydden fr&obar; him. For this thinge was not done in a corner. Kynge Agrippa belevest thou þe; prophetes? I wote well thou belevest. Agrippa sayde vnto Paul: Sumwhat thou bringest me in mynde for to be come a Christen. And Paul sayd: I wolde to God that not only thou: but also all that heare me to daye / were / G   not sumwhat only / but altogeder soche as I am / except these bond&es;. And when he had thus spoken / the kynge rose vp / ∧ the debite / and Bernice / and they that sate with them. And when they were gone aparte / they talked betwene them selves sayinge: This man doeth nothinge worthy of deeth / nor of bondes. Then sayde Agrippa vnto Festus: This man myght have bene lowsed / yf he had not appealed vnto Cesar.

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