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21:39 I beg of thee permit me to speak to the
people. 40 And permitting him Paul standing on the steps beckoned with the
hand to the people; and much silence becoming he addressed in the Hebrew
language saying:
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Men brothers and fathers, hear ye of me the to you now defence. 2 And
hearing that in the Hebrew language he addressed them more they showed
quietness, And he says: 3 I am a man a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of
Cilici, and having been brought up in city this, at the feet of Gamaliel
having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law a zeal
being of God even as all ye are today; 4 who this way persecuted as far as
to death, binding and delivering to prisons both men and women. 5 As even
the high priest witnessed to me and all the senate; from whom also letters
having received to the brothers in Damascus
I journeyed, leading also the ones there being having been bound to Jerusalem that they
might be punished. 6 Now it happened to me journeying and drawing
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to Damascus about midday suddenly out of heaven to shine round a light considerable
round me, 7 and I fell to the ground and heard voice saying to me Saul,
Saul, why me persecutist thou? 8 And I answered: Who art thou Lord? And he
said to me: I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecutest 9 Now the ones
with me being the indeed light beheld, but the voice they heard not of the
one speaking to me. 10 And I said: What may I do Lord? And the Lord said to
me: Rising up go into Damascus,
and there to thee it will be told concerning all things which have been
arranged for thee to do. 11 and as I saw not from the glory of that light
being led by the hand by the ones being with me I went into Damascus. 12
and a certain Ananias, a man devout according to the law,
being witnessed to by all the dwelling there Jews, 13 coming to me and standing
by said to me: Saul brother, look up. And I in that hour looked up at him.
14 and he said: The God of the fathers of us previously appointed thee to
know the will of him and to see the Just One and to hear a voice 16 out of
the
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of him, 15 because thou wilt be a witness to him to all men of things which
thou has seen and didst hear. And now what intendest thou? Rising up be
baptised and wash away the sins of thee, invoking the name of him. 17 and
it happened to me having returned to Jerusalem and praying me in the temple
to become me in an ecstasy, 18 and to see him saying to me: Haste and go
forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive of thee
witness concerning me. 19 And I said: Lord, they understand that I was
imprisoning and beating throughout the synagogues the ones believing on
thee; 20 and when was being shed the blood of Stephen the witness of thee
even myself I was standing by and consenting and keeping the garmentso f
the ones killing him. 21 and he said to me: Go because I to nations afar
will send forth thee. 22 And they heard him as far as to this word, and
lifted up the voice of them saying: Take from the earth such a man for not
it is fitting him to live. 23 And shouting them and tearing their garments
and dust throwing in the air,
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