gltv - Acts:21:27-22:29

gltv@Acts:21:27 @ But when the seven days were about to be completed, having seen him in the temple, the Jews from Asia stirred up all the crowd, and they laid hands on him,

gltv@Acts:21:28 @ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.

gltv@Acts:21:29 @ For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they supposed that Paul brought into the temple.

gltv@Acts:21:30 @ And the whole city was moved, and there was a running together of people. And having laid hold of Paul, they drew him outside of the temple, and at once the doors were shut.

gltv@Acts:21:31 @ But as they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem is in a tumult.

gltv@Acts:21:32 @ He at once ran down to them, taking soldiers and centurions. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

gltv@Acts:21:33 @ Then going near, the chiliarch laid hold of him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains. And he asked who he might be, and what he is doing.

gltv@Acts:21:34 @ But others cried something else in the crowd, and not being able to know the certainty because of the uproar, he commanded him brought into the fortress.

gltv@Acts:21:35 @ But when he came on the stairs, it happened he was borne by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd.

gltv@Acts:21:36 @ For the multitude of the people followed, crying out, Take him away!

gltv@Acts:21:37 @ But being about to be brought into the fortress, Paul said to the chiliarch, Is it lawful for me to say a thing to you? And he said, Do you know to speak in Greek?

gltv@Acts:21:38 @ Then are you not the Egyptian who before these days caused a riot, and led four thousand men of the assassins out into the desert?

gltv@Acts:21:39 @ But Paul said, Indeed I am a man, a Jew of Tarsus, of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. And I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.

gltv@Acts:21:40 @ And he allowing him, standing on the stairs, Paul signaled with his hand to the people. And much silence taking place, he spoke in the Hebrew dialect, saying,

gltv@Acts:22:1 @ Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.

gltv@Acts:22:2 @ And hearing that he spoke in the Hebrew dialect to them, they showed more quietness. And he said:

gltv@Acts:22:3 @ Indeed I am a man, a Jew having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being a zealous one of God, even as you all are today.

gltv@Acts:22:4 @ I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering up both men and women to prisons,

gltv@Acts:22:5 @ as also the high priest and all the elderhood witnesses to me. And having received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus even to lead those to Jerusalem being bound there, in order that they might be punished.

gltv@Acts:22:6 @ And it happened to me, traveling and drawing near to Damascus: suddenly, about midday, a great light out of the heaven shone around me.

gltv@Acts:22:7 @ And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

gltv@Acts:22:8 @ And I answered, Who are you, Sir? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you persecute.

gltv@Acts:22:9 @ But those being with me indeed saw the light, and were alarmed, but did not hear His voice speaking to me.

gltv@Acts:22:10 @ And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rising up, go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all things which are appointed to you to do.

gltv@Acts:22:11 @ And as I did not see, from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those being with me, I went into Damascus.

gltv@Acts:22:12 @ And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, testified to by all the Jews living there,

gltv@Acts:22:13 @ coming to me and standing by, he said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And in the same hour I looked up on him.

gltv@Acts:22:14 @ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed you to know His will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth;

gltv@Acts:22:15 @ for you shall be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

gltv@Acts:22:16 @ And now what do you intend? Rising up, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

gltv@Acts:22:17 @ And it happened to me, returning to Jerusalem and praying in the temple: I became in an ecstasy,

gltv@Acts:22:18 @ and I saw Him saying to me, Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.

gltv@Acts:22:19 @ And I said, Lord, they understand that I was imprisoning and beating the ones believing on You throughout the synagogues.

gltv@Acts:22:20 @ And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was poured out, I myself also was standing by and consenting to his execution, and holding the garments of those killing him.

gltv@Acts:22:21 @ And He said to me, Go, for I will send you to the nations afar off.

gltv@Acts:22:22 @ And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth, for it is not fitting that he should live!

gltv@Acts:22:23 @ And they shouting, and tearing the garments, and throwing dust into the air,

gltv@Acts:22:24 @ the chiliarch ordered to bring him into the fortress, saying for him to be examined with scourges, that he may know for what crime they cried out so against him.

gltv@Acts:22:25 @ But as they stretched him with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to flog a man, a Roman not found guilty?

gltv@Acts:22:26 @ And hearing, coming near the centurion reported to the chiliarch, saying, Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.

gltv@Acts:22:27 @ And coming up, the chiliarch said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes.

gltv@Acts:22:28 @ And the chiliarch answered, I bought this citizenship with a great sum. And Paul said, But I even was born free.

gltv@Acts:22:29 @ Then at once those being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also feared, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.