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From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>And I answered, Who are You, Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, <i>and</i> well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>came to me, and standing near said to me, Brother Saul, receive your sight! And at that very time I looked up at him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>And he said, The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>and I saw Him saying to me, Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>And I said, Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>And He said to me, Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>They listened to him up to this statement, and <i>then</i> they raised their voices and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>And as they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>But when they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>When the centurion heard <i>this,</i> he went to the commander and told him, saying, What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>The commander came and said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>The commander answered, I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money. And Paul said, But I was actually born <i>a citizen.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/22-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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