Acts 26:9-18
9 “So aI thought to myself that I had to act in strong opposition to bthe name of Jesus ▼▼Or the Nazarene
of Nazareth. 10And this is ▼▼Lit also
just what I edid in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the ▼▼Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
saints in prisons, after greceiving authority from the chief priests, but I also hcast my vote against them when they were being put to death. 11And ias I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and since I was jextremely enraged at them, I kept pursuing them keven to ▼▼Or outlying
foreign cities. 12 “ ▼
▼Lit In which things
While so engaged, nas 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 pall fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ▼▼I.e., Jewish Aramaic
,
rHebrew 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 tstand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to uappoint you as a vservant and wa 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 xrescuing you yfrom the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18 to zopen their eyes so that they may turn from aadarkness to light, and from the ▼▼Or dominion
power of acSatan to God, that they may receive adforgiveness of sins and an aeinheritance among those who have been sanctified by affaith in Me.’
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