Deeds (Act) of Apostles 26:3-19

³mostly for thou knowest all things that be among Jews, customs and questions. For which thing, I beseech, hear me patiently.

⁴For all Jews that before knew me from the beginning, know my life from youth;

⁵that from the beginning was in my folk in Jerusalem, if they will bear witnessing or bear witness, that by the most certain sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

⁶And now for the hope of repromission, that is made to our fathers of God, I stand subject in doom;

⁷in which hope our twelve lineages, serving night and day hope to come; of which hope, sir king, I am accused of the Jews.

⁸What unbelieveful thing is deemed at you, if God raiseth dead men?

⁹And soothly I guessed, that I ought to do many contrary things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁰Which thing also I did in Jeru-salem, and I enclosed many of the saints in prison, when I had taken power of the princes of priests. And when they were slain, I brought or I gave the sentence.

¹¹And by all synagogues oft I punished them, and constrained to blaspheme; and more I waxed mad against them, and pursued till into alien cities.

¹²In which, the while I went to Damascus, with power and suffering of the princes of priests,

¹³at midday, in the way I saw, sir king, that from heaven a light shined about me, passing the shining of the sun, and about them that were together with me.

¹⁴And when we all had fallen down into the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, what persecutest or pursuest thou me? it is hard to or for thee, to kick against the prick.

¹⁵And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest or pursuest.

¹⁶But rise up, and stand on thy feet. For why to this thing I appeared to thee, that I ordain thee minister and witness of those things that thou hast seen, and of those things in which I shall show or shall appear to thee.

¹⁷And I shall deliver thee from peoples and folks, to which now I send thee,

¹⁸to open the eyes of them, that they be converted or turned from darkness to light, and from power of Satan to God, that they take remission of sins, and part among saints, by faith that is in me.

¹⁹Wherefore, sir king Agrippa, I was not unbelieveful to the heavenly vision;