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Acts 26:4-18

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4“Therefore my way of life from my youth, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation in Jerusalem, all the Jews know,
5since they have known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
6And now for the hope of the promise having been made by God to the fathers, I stand before you judged,
7a promise to which our twelve tribes, as they earnestly serve God night and day, hope to attain. Concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.
8Why is it considered such an unbelievable thing by you people if God raises the dead?
9“Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;
10which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
11And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even as far as to foreign cities.
12“In which pursuits also, as I traveled to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.
14And when we all had fallen down to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
16But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will appear to you,
17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
18to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

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