¹Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

¹Agripa pa reče Pavlu: Dopušča se ti, da sam zase govoriš. Tedaj Pavel iztegne roko in se zagovarja:

²“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

²Srečnega se štejem, kralj Agripa, da se smem danes pred teboj zagovarjati za vse, česar me Judje dolže,

³especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

³zlasti ker vem, da poznaš vse šega in prepire pri Judih: zato te prosim, da bi me potrpežljivo poslušal.

⁴“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

⁴Kar se torej tiče življenja mojega od mladosti, kakšno je bilo od začetka med narodom mojim in v Jeruzalemu, vedo vsi Judje,

⁵having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

⁵ker me poznajo od začetka, če hočejo pričati, da sem živel po najostrejši ločini bogoslužja našega kot farizej.

⁶Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

⁶In sedaj stojim pred sodbo zavoljo upanja v obljubo, ki jo je Bog dal očetom našim,

⁷which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

⁷ki jo dvanajsteri rodovi naši upajo doseči, stanovitno služeč Bogu noč in dan. Zavoljo tega upanja sem, o kralj, tožen od Judov.

⁸Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

⁸Zakaj se vam zdi neverjetno, da Bog mrtve obuja?

⁹“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹Tudi jaz sem sicer menil, da moram zoper ime Jezusa Nazarečana storiti veliko nasprotnega.

¹⁰This I also did 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.

¹⁰To sem tudi storil v Jeruzalemu; in veliko svetih sem zaprl v ječe, ko sem bil prejel pooblastilo za to od višjih duhovnikov, in ko so jih morili, sem dajal svoj glas zoper nje.

¹¹Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹¹In po vseh shodnicah sem jih pogostoma mučil in silil preklinjati Jezusa; in neizmerno sem divjal zoper nje in jih preganjal celo v inostranskih mestih.

¹²“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

¹²In ko sem zategadelj šel v Damask z oblastjo in dovoljenjem od višjih duhovnikov,

¹³at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

¹³opoldne na potu sem videl, o kralj, z neba luč, svetlejšo od sončne svetlobe, ki je obsijala mene in tiste, ki so šli z menoj.

¹⁴When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

¹⁴In ko smo vsi popadali na zemljo, sem slišal glas, da mi pravi v hebrejskem jeziku: Savel, Savel, kaj me preganjaš? Težko ti je proti ostnu brcati.

¹⁵“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

¹⁵Jaz sem pa rekel: Kdo si, Gospod? Gospod pa veli: Jaz sem Jezus, ki ga ti preganjaš.

¹⁶ But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

¹⁶Ali vstani in stopi na noge. Zato namreč sem se ti prikazal, da te postavim za služabnika in pričo tega, kar si videl, in tega, v čemer se ti bom pokazoval,

¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

¹⁷ko te bom reševal od ljudstva judovskega in poganov, med katere te sedaj pošiljam,

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

¹⁸da jim odpreš oči, da se izpreobrnejo od teme k luči in od oblasti satanove k Bogu: da prejmo odpuščenje grehov in delež med posvečenimi po veri, ki je v mene.

¹⁹“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

¹⁹Zato, kralj Agripa, nisem bil nepokoren nebeški prikazni,

²⁰but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

²⁰ampak oznanjeval sem najprej tem, ki so bili v Damasku, potem v Jeruzalemu in po vsej deželi Judejski in tudi poganom, naj se izpokore in izpreobrnejo k Bogu, opravljajoč dela, vredna izpokorjenja.

²¹For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

²¹Zato so me Judje v templju zgrabili in poskusili svojeročno umoriti.

²²Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

²²Ali dobivši pomoč, ki je od Boga, stojim do današnjega dne in pričujem malim in velikim, ne govoreč ničesar drugega, nego kar so govorili proroki in Mojzes, da se bo zgodilo,

²³how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

²³namreč, da mora Kristus trpeti in kot prvi iz vstajenja mrtvih luč oznanjevati temu narodu in poganom.

²⁴As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

²⁴Ko se pa tako zagovarja, reče Fest z močnim glasom: Meša se ti, Pavel! Velika učenost tvoja ti jemlje um.

²⁵But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

²⁵Pavel pa reče: Ne meša se mi, vrli Fest, temuč besede resnice in razumnosti govorim.

²⁶For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

²⁶Saj ve za to stvar kralj, h kateremu tudi prostosrčno govorim; prepričan sem namreč, da mu ni nič tega neznanega, kajti to se ni godilo v zakotju.

²⁷King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

²⁷Veruješ, kralj Agripa, prorokom? Vem, da veruješ.

²⁸Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

²⁸Agripa pa reče Pavlu: Malo, pa me boš pregovoril, da postanem kristjan.

²⁹Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

²⁹Pavel pa reče: Želel bi od Boga, bodisi za malo ali za veliko, da ne bi samo ti, ampak tudi vsi, ki me danes poslušajo, bili taki, kakršen sem tudi jaz, izimši te spone.

³⁰The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

³⁰In vstanejo kralj in namestnik in Bernika in kateri so ž njim sedeli,

³¹When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

³¹ter odidejo na stran in se razgovarjajo in pravijo: Ta človek ne dela nič smrti ali spon vrednega.Agripa pa reče Festu: Lahko bi se bil izpustil ta človek, da se ni sklical na cesarja.

³²Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

³²Agripa pa reče Festu: Lahko bi se bil izpustil ta človek, da se ni sklical na cesarja.