Acts 26:5 - Exposition

Having knowledge of me from the first for which knew me from the beginning, A.V.; be willing to for would, A.V.; how that for that, A.V.; straitest for most straitest, A.V. Straitest ( ἀκριβεστάτην ); see Acts 22:3 ; Acts 18:26 , etc. Sect ( αἵρεσις ); see Acts 24:14 , note. He does not disclaim being still a Pharisee. On the contrary, in the next verse ( Acts 24:6 ) he declares, as he had done in Acts 23:6 , that it was for the chief hope of the Pharisees that he was now accused. He tries to enlist all the good feeling that ye t remained among the Jews on his side.