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Acts 22:4-18

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4I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
5as also the high priest and all the council of elders can bear me witness. I even obtained letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, to bring those also who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.
6Now it happened, as I was going and approaching Damascus, about noon, suddenly a strong light from heaven shone around me.
7I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8So I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Natsorean, whom you are persecuting.’
9Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not understand the voice of the One speaking to me.
10So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all that has been appointed to you to do.’
11And since I could not see, because of the brightness of that light, I entered Damascus being led by the hand of those who were with me.
12Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
13came to me, and standing by me said, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up at him.
14Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth.
15For you shall be a witness for Him to all men of the things that you have seen and heard.
16And now, why hesitate? Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking the name of the Lord.’
17“Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance
18and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.’

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