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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 22 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Acts 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/21.htm" title="Acts 21">◄</a> Acts 22 <a href="../acts/23.htm" title="Acts 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/acts/22-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.”<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and they having heard that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more silent, and he says,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactness of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all you are today. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And this Way I persecuted to death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>as also the chief priest testifies to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters to the brothers, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and it came to pass, in my going on and coming near to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of Heaven there shone a great light around me; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I also fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I answered, Who are You, Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you persecute— <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and they who are with me saw the light, and became afraid, and they did not hear the voice of Him who is speaking to me— <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and I said, What will I do, Lord? And the LORD said to me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it will be told you concerning all things that have been appointed for you to do. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the Law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling [there], <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>having come to me and stood by [me], said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and the same hour I looked up to him; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he said, The God of our fathers chose you beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>because you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and now, why do you linger? Having risen, immerse yourself, and wash away your sins, calling on the Name of the LORD.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it came to pass, when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and I saw Him saying to me, Hurry and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and I said, LORD, they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging those believing on You in every synagogue; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being poured forth, I was also standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death; <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and He said to me, Go, because I will send you to far-off nations.”<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And they were hearing him to this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, “Away from the earth with such a one; for it is not fit for him to live.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the stronghold, saying, “Let him be examined by scourges,” that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And as he was stretching him with the straps, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful to you to scourge a man, a Roman, uncondemned?” <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, “Take heed what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman”; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and the chief captain having come near, said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes”; <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and the chief captain answered, “I, with a great sum, obtained this citizenship”; but Paul said, “But I have even been born [so].” <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Immediately, therefore, they departed from him, those being about to examine him, and the chief captain was also afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and the next day, intending to know the certainty for what reason he is accused by the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their Sanhedrin to come, and having brought down Paul, he set [him] before them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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