Acts Chapter 26 verse 5 Holy Bible
having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.
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who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - 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 (ver. 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 yet remained among the Jews on his side.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) After the most straitest sect.--Better, most rigid, or most precise. The Greek does not contain anything answering to the double superlative of the English. The word for "sect" is the same as that used in Acts 24:5, and translated "heresy" in Acts 24:14.
