Acts 26:9-18
9“So then, aI thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to bthe name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10“And this is ▼▼ Lit also
just what I ddid in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the ▼▼ Or holy ones
saints in prisons, having freceived authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I gcast my vote against them. 11“And has I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being ifuriously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them jeven to ▼▼ Or outlying
foreign cities. 12 ▼▼ Lit In which things
“While so engaged mas 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 oall fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ▼▼ I.e. Jewish Aramaic
,
qHebrew 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 sstand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to tappoint you a uminister and va 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 xrescuing you yfrom the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18to zopen their eyes so that they may turn from aadarkness to light and from the dominion of abSatan to God, that they may receive acforgiveness of sins and an adinheritance among those who have been sanctified by aefaith in Me.’
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