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Acts 9:9-29

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9For three days he couldn't see, and he didn't eat or drink anything.
10A follower of Jesus called Ananias lived in Damascus, and the Lord spoke to him in a vision. “Ananias!” he called. “I'm here, Lord,” Ananias responded.
11“Get up, and go to Straight Street,” the Lord told him. “Ask at Judas' house for someone called Saul, from Tarsus. He's praying.
12He's seen in vision a man called Ananias come and place his hands on him so he can regain his sight.”
13“But Lord,” Ananias replied, “I've heard a lot about this man—about all the evil things he did to the believers in Jerusalem.
14The chief priests have given him the power to arrest everyone here that worships and follows you.”
15But the Lord told him, “Get on your way, because he is the person I have chosen to take my name to foreigners and kings, as well as to Israel.
16I will show him what he'll have to suffer for my name's sake.”
17So Ananias left and went to the house. He placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “The Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling here, has sent me so you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
18Immediately, something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized.
19He also had something to eat and felt stronger. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.
20He immediately started speaking in the synagogues, saying, “Jesus is the Son of God.”
21All who heard him were amazed, and asked, “Isn't this the man who caused so much trouble in Jerusalem for those who believed in Jesus? Wasn't he coming here to have the believers arrested and taken in chains to the chief priests?”
22Saul grew more and more confident, proving Jesus was the Messiah so convincingly that the Jews who lived in Damascus could not refute him.
23Some time later the Jews plotted together to kill him,
24but Saul learned of their intentions. Day and night they waited by the city gates looking for the chance to murder him.
25So during the night his followers took him and lowered him down in a basket from an opening in the city wall.
26When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him because they were not convinced he was really a disciple.
27However, Barnabas took him to meet the apostles, and explained to them how Saul had seen the Lord on the road and how the Lord had spoken to Saul. Barnabas also explained how in Damascus Saul had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.
28Saul stayed with the apostles and accompanied them all over Jerusalem,
29speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. He talked and debated with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to kill him.

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