Acts:26:12-23

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* Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests , * At midday , O king , I saw in the way a light from heaven , above the brightness of the sun , shining round about me and them which journeyed with me . * And when we were all fallen to the earth , I heard a voice speaking unto me , and saying in the Hebrew tongue , Saul , Saul , why persecutest thou me ? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks . * And I said , Who art thou , Lord ? And he said , I am Jesus whom thou persecutest . * But rise , and stand upon thy feet : for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose , to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen , and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee ; * Delivering thee from the people , and from the Gentiles , unto whom now I send thee , * To open their eyes , and to turn them from darkness to light , and from the power of Satan unto God , that they may receive forgiveness of sins , and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me . * Whereupon , O king Agrippa , I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision : * But shewed first unto them of Damascus , and at Jerusalem , and throughout all the coasts of Judaea , and then to the Gentiles , that they should repent and turn to God , and do works meet for repentance . * For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple , and went about to kill me . * Having therefore obtained help of God , I continue unto this day , witnessing both to small and great , saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come : * That Christ should suffer , and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead , and should shew light unto the people , and to the Gentiles .

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