And now: why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptised, and wash away thy sins, in calling on the name of the Lord.'

And he said, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia: nevertheless yet brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and informed diligently in the law of the fathers, and was fervent minded to Godward, as ye all are this same day,

And as they cried and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

the captain bade him to be brought into the castle: and commanded him to be scourged, and to be examined, that he might know wherefore they cried on him.

On the morrow he loosed him from his bonds, desiring to know the certainty for what cause he was accused of the Jews, and commanded the high priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul, and set him before them.

And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?"

When the centurion heard that, he went to the upper-captain, and told him saying, "What intendest thou to do? This man is a citizen of Rome."

Then the upper-captain came to him, and said, "Tell me, art thou a Roman?" He said, "Yea."

And the high captain answered, "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." And Paul said, "I was freeborn."

"Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear mine answer which I make unto you."

and I persecuted this way unto the death: binding, and delivering into prison both men and women,

And it fortuned, when I was come again to Jerusalem and prayed in the temple, that I was in a trance;

Then straightway departed from him they which should have examined him. And the high captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman: because he had bound him.

And he said unto me, 'The God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:

They gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth: it is pity that he should live."

And it fortuned that as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus, about noon, that suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me,

And they that were with me saw verily a light and were afraid: but they heard not the voice of him that spake with me.

And he said unto me, 'Depart for I will send thee afar hence unto the gentiles.'"

When they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence.

And when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also stood by, and consented unto his death and kept the raiment of them that slew him.'

And I said, 'What shall I do Lord?' And the Lord said unto me, 'Arise and go into Damascus and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.'

for thou shalt be his witness unto all men of those things which thou hast seen and heard.

And I said, 'Lord they know that I prisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee.

and I fell unto the earth, and heard a voice saying unto me, 'Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?'

And one Ananias, a perfect man, and as pertaining to the law having good report of all the Jews which there dwelt,

And saw him saying unto me, 'Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy witness that thou bearest of me.'

as the chief priest doth bear me witness, and all the elders: of whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem for to be punished.

And I answered, 'What art thou Lord?' And he said unto me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.'

And when I saw nothing for the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand of them that were with me, and came into Damascus.

came unto me, and stood and said unto me, 'Brother Saul, look up.' And that same hour I received my sight and saw him.