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Acts 22 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:1 - Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:2 - (And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:3 - I am verily a man who am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, being zealous towards God, as ye all are this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:4 - And I persecuted this way even to death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:5 - As also the high priest doth bear me testimony, and all the estate of the elders; from whom also I received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them who were there bound to Jerusalem, to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:6 - And it came to pass, that as I was passing on my journey, and had come nigh to Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light around me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:7 - And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:8 - And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:9 - And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:10 - And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go into Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things which are appointed for thee to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:11 - And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:12 - And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews who dwelt there,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:13 - Came to me, and stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:14 - And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldst know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldst hear the voice of his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:15 - For thou shalt be his witness to all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:16 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:17 - And it came to pass, that when I had come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:18 - And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and depart quickly from Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:19 - And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:20 - And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:21 - And he said to me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:22 - And they gave him audience to this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a man from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:23 - And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:24 - The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know for what cause they cried so against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:25 - And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:26 - When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest; for this man is a Roman.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:27 - Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yes.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:28 - And the chief captain answered, With a great sum I obtained this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:29 - Then forthwith they departed from him who were about to examine him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:30 - On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty why he was accused by the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
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