Acts 22:15-26

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.