Acts 22:10-30

¹⁰And I sayde: what shall I do Lorde? And the Lorde sayde vnto me: Aryse and goo into Damasco and there it shalbe tolde the of all thinges which are apoynted for the to do.

¹¹And when I sawe nothynge for the brightnes of that light I was ledde by the honde of them that were with me and came into Damasco.

¹²And one Ananias a perfect man and as pertayninge to the lawe havinge good reporte of all the Iewes which there dwelt

¹³came vnto me and stode and sayd vnto me: Brother Saul loke vp. And that same houre I receaved my sight and sawe him.

¹⁴And he sayde the God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before that thou shuldest knowe his will and shuldest se that which is rightfull and shuldest heare the voyce of his mouth:

¹⁵for thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men of tho thinges which thou thou hast sene and hearde.

¹⁶And now: why tariest thou? Aryse and be baptised and wesshe awaye thy synnes in callinge on the name of the Lorde.

¹⁷And it fortuned when I was come agayne to Ierusalem and prayde in the temple that I was in a trauce

¹⁸and sawe him sayinge vnto me. Make haste and get the quickly out of Ierusalem: for they will not receave thy witnes that thou bearest of me.

¹⁹And I sayde: Lorde they knowe that I presoned and bet in every synagoge them that beleved on the.

²⁰And when the bloud of thy witnes Steven was sheed I also stode by and consented vnto his deeth and kept the rayment of them that slewe him.

²¹And he sayde vnto me: departe for I will sende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.

²²They gave him audience vnto this worde and then lifte vp their voyces and sayde: a waye with soche a felowe from the erth: that is pitie that he shuld live.

²³And as they cryed and cast of their clothes and thrue dust into the ayer

²⁴the captayne bade him to be brought into the castle and commaunded him to be scourged and to be examined that he myght knowe wherfore they cryed on him.

²⁵And as they bounde him with thonges Paul sayde vnto the Centurion that stode by: Ys it laufull for you to scourge a man that is a Romain and vncondempned?

²⁶When the Centurion hearde that he went and tolde the vpper captayne sayinge: What intendest thou to do? This man is a Romayne.

²⁷Then the vpper captayne came and sayde to him: tell me art thou a Romayne? He sayde: Yee.

²⁸And the captayne answered: with a greate some obtayned I this fredome. And Paul sayde: I was fre borne.

²⁹Then strayght waye departed from him they which shuld have examyned him. And the hye captayne also was a frayde after he knewe that he was a Romayne: because he had bounde him.

³⁰On the morowe because he wolde have knowen the certayntie wherfore he was accused of the Iewes he lowsed him from his bondes and commaunded the hye Prestes and all the counsell to come together and brought Paul and set him before them.