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 all around me and those who were journeying with me. 14“And when we had dall fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ▼▼ I.e. Jewish Aramaic
,
fHebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? ▼▼ An idiom referring to an animal’s futile resistance to being prodded with goads
It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15“And 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 a jminister and ka witness not only to the things which you have ▼▼ Two early mss read seen Me
seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you; 17 mrescuing you nfrom the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18to oopen their eyes so that they may turn from pdarkness to light and from the dominion 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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