Acts 22:15-23

¹⁵for you will be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard.

¹⁶And now why wait any longer, Be baptised at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his name.’

¹⁷After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance,

¹⁸and saw Jesus saying to me ‘Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

¹⁹‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in synagogue after synagogue, those who believed in you;

²⁰and, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.’

²¹But Jesus said to me ‘Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away’.”

²²Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out, “Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!”

²³As they were shouting, tearing off their clothes, and throwing dust in the air,