Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
if they would—"were willing to"
testify—but this, of course, they were not, it being a strong point in his favor.
after the most straitest—"the strictest."
sect—as the Pharisees confessedly were. This was said to meet the charge, that as a Hellenistic Jew he had contracted among the heathen lax ideas of Jewish peculiarities.
from my youth, which was at the first . . . at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning—plainly showing that he received his education, even from early youth, at Jerusalem. See on Acts 22:3.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 26:5:
Galatians 1:14
Ephesians 2:3
Philippians 3:5
James 1:26-27
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