Acts 22:1-15 ▼

1 “Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.”

2 and they having heard that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more silent, and he says,

3 “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.

4 And this Way I persecuted to death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

5 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,

6 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;

7 I also fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

8 And I answered, Who are You, Lord? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you persecute—

9 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—

10 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.

11 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,

12 and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the Law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling [there],

13 having come to me and stood by [me], said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and the same hour I looked up to him;

14 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,

15 because you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard;