Acts 22 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Paul's Defense before the Jews

Act 22:1Brethren and fathers, hear my defence which I now make to you.

Act 22:2And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,

Act 22:3*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day;

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Act 22:4who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women;

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Act 22:5as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.

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Act 22:6And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of heaven a great light round about me.

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Act 22:7And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

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Act 22:8And *I* answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, *I* am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom *thou* persecutest.

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Act 22:9But they that were with me beheld the light, and were filled with fear, but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.

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Act 22:10And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.

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Act 22:11And as I could not see, through the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to Damascus.

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Act 22:12And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt there,

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Act 22:13coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And *I*, in the same hour, received my sight and saw him.

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Act 22:14And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;

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Act 22:15for thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

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Act 22:16And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

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Act 22:17And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,

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Act 22:18and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

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Act 22:19And *I* said, Lord, they themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;

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Act 22:20and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.

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Act 22:21And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the nations afar off.

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Act 22:22And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.

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Act 22:23And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air,

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Act 22:24the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.

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Act 22:25But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

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Act 22:26And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this man is a Roman.

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Act 22:27And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art *thou* a Roman? And he said, Yes.

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Act 22:28And the chiliarch answered, *I*, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But *I* was also free born.

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Act 22:29Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

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Act 22:30And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty of the matter why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.

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Paul's Defense before the Jews

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