Acts 26:9
World English Bible (WEB)
“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
In context
7 which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
8 Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?
9 “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10 I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
Acts 26:9 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- KJV King James Version
- I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- ASV American Standard Version
- I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved [me] many things to do,
- DBY Darby Translation
- I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.
- WBS Webster Bible
- I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.