Acts Chapter 26 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 26:4

My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
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BBE Acts 26:4

All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;
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DARBY Acts 26:4

My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,
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KJV Acts 26:4

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
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WBT Acts 26:4


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WEB Acts 26:4

"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;
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YLT Acts 26:4

`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Then from my youth up for for my youth. A.V.; from the beginning for at the first. A.V.; and at for at, A.V. and T.R. My manner of life, etc. The same testimony of a good conscience as that in Acts 23:1 and Acts 24:16. The word βίωσις occurs only here in the New Testament. But we find the phrase, τῆς ἐννόμου βιώσεως, "the manner of life according to the Law," in the Prologue to Ecclesiasticus and in Symmachus (Psalm 38:6), though not in classical Greek. The verb βιόω occurs in 1 Peter 4:2, and not infrequently in the LXX. From my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation, etc., having knowledge of me from the first (in ver. 5). No appeal could be stronger as to the notoriety of his whole life spent in the midst of his own people, observed and known of all. The T.R. implies that his youth was spent at Jerusalem, according to what he himself tells us in Acts 22:3. The R.T. does so less distinctly. (For St. Paul's account of his early Pharisaism, comp. Galatians 1:13, 14; Philippians 3:5, 6.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) My manner of life from my youth.--The Apostle refers, of course, to the time when he first came up to Jerusalem to study the Law and the traditions at the fees, of Gamaliel. (Comp. his account of the same period in Galatians 1:14; Philippians 3:5-6.)Know all the Jews.--The noun seems to be used in its more limited meaning, as including chiefly, if not exclusively, the Jews of Judaea.