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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 9 NLT</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><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/9.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/9-1.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="../">NLT</a> > Acts 9</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 border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/8.htm" title="Acts 8">◄</a> Acts 9 <a href="../acts/10.htm" title="Acts 10">►</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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/acts/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Saul’s Conversion</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> So he went to the high priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As he was approaching Damascus on this mission, a light from heaven suddenly shone down around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, <span class="red">“Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Who are you, lord?” Saul asked.</p><p class="reg">And the voice replied, <span class="red">“I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The men with Saul stood speechless, for they heard the sound of someone’s voice but saw no one! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Saul picked himself up off the ground, but when he opened his eyes he was blind. So his companions led him by the hand to Damascus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He remained there blind for three days and did not eat or drink.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now there was a believer<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> in Damascus named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, calling, <span class="red">“Ananias!”</span></p><p class="reg">“Yes, Lord!” he replied.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Lord said, <span class="red">“Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">I have shown him a vision of a man named Ananias coming in and laying hands on him so he can see again.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“But Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I’ve heard many people talk about the terrible things this man has done to the believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> in Jerusalem! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he is authorized by the leading priests to arrest everyone who calls upon your name.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But the Lord said, <span class="red">“Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength.</p><p class="hdg">Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem</p><p class="reg">Saul stayed with the believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> in Damascus for a few days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And immediately he began preaching about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is indeed the Son of God!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>All who heard him were amazed. “Isn’t this the same man who caused such devastation among Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem?” they asked. “And didn’t he come here to arrest them and take them in chains to the leading priests?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Saul’s preaching became more and more powerful, and the Jews in Damascus couldn’t refute his proofs that Jesus was indeed the Messiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>After a while some of the Jews plotted together to kill him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They were watching for him day and night at the city gate so they could murder him, but Saul was told about their plot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So during the night, some of the other believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> lowered him in a large basket through an opening in the city wall.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to meet with the believers, but they were all afraid of him. They did not believe he had truly become a believer! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and told them how Saul had seen the Lord on the way to Damascus and how the Lord had spoken to Saul. He also told them that Saul had preached boldly in the name of Jesus in Damascus.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to murder him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When the believers<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> heard about this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus, his hometown.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. And with the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it also grew in numbers.</p><p class="hdg">Peter Heals Aeneas and Raises Dorcas</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Meanwhile, Peter traveled from place to place, and he came down to visit the believers in the town of Lydda. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>There he met a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up, and roll up your sleeping mat!” And he was healed instantly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then the whole population of Lydda and Sharon saw Aeneas walking around, and they turned to the Lord.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>There was a believer in Joppa named Tabitha (which in Greek is Dorcas<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a>). She was always doing kind things for others and helping the poor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>About this time she became ill and died. Her body was washed for burial and laid in an upstairs room. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But the believers had heard that Peter was nearby at Lydda, so they sent two men to beg him, “Please come as soon as possible!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>So Peter returned with them; and as soon as he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. The room was filled with widows who were weeping and showing him the coats and other clothes Dorcas had made for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But Peter asked them all to leave the room; then he knelt and prayed. Turning to the body he said, “Get up, Tabitha.” And she opened her eyes! When she saw Peter, she sat up! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then he called in the widows and all the believers, and he presented her to them alive.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The news spread through the whole town, and many believed in the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/9-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And Peter stayed a long time in Joppa, living with Simon, a tanner of hides.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">disciples.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:10 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">disciple;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:26, 36.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">God’s holy people;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:32, 41.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">disciples;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:26, 38.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">his disciples.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:30 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:36 </span><span class="ft">The names </span><span class="it">Tabitha</span><span class="ft"> in Aramaic and </span><span class="it">Dorcas</span><span class="ft"> in Greek both mean “gazelle.”</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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