“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people ¹  to myself.”

And I set myself apart ¹  on their behalf, ²  so that they too may be truly set apart. ³ 

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people. ¹ 

So ¹  I made up my own mind ²  not to pay you another painful visit. ³ 

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, ¹  I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God’s law. ² 

That is why ¹  I did not presume ²  to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed. ³ 

I testify about myself ¹  and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

“Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, ¹  I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

Of course, ¹  I myself was convinced ²  that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself ¹  so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed ²  the gospel of God to you free of charge?

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

Brothers and sisters, ¹  I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: ²  Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place ¹  during ²  my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel. ³ 

If anyone wants to do God’s will, ¹  he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority. ² 

For I have not spoken from my own authority, ¹  but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me ²  what I should say and what I should speak.

And if I go and make ready ¹  a place for you, I will come again and take you ²  to be with me, ³  so that where I am you may be too.

But what was the divine response ¹  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ²  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ³