Acts 26:12-18
12 “ ▼▼Lit In which things
While so engaged, bas I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, 13at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, ▼▼Lit above the brightness of
brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying with me. 14And when we had dall fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ▼▼I.e., Jewish Aramaic
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fHebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? ▼▼An idiom referring to an animal’s futile resistance to being prodded with a spiked stick
It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16 But get up and hstand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to iappoint you as a jservant and ka witness not only to the things in which you have seen Me, but also to the things in which I will appear to you, 17 lrescuing you mfrom the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to nopen their eyes so that they may turn from odarkness to light, and from the ▼▼Or dominion
power of qSatan to God, that they may receive rforgiveness of sins and an sinheritance among those who have been sanctified by tfaith in Me.’
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