Acts:9:1-25

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* The and Saul still breathing of threatening and slaughter towards the disciples of the Lord , coming to the high –priest , * he desired from him letters to Damascus to the synagogues , that if any he might find of the way being , men both and women , having been bound he might lead into Jerusalem . * In and the to go , came him to draw near to the Damascus ; and suddenly flashed around him a light from the heaven ; * and having fallen to the earth , he heard a voice saying to him : Saul , Saul ; Why dost thou persecute ? * He said and : Who art thou , O Lord ? The and Lord said : I am Jesus ; whom thou persecutest ; * but stand thou up and enter into the city , and it shall be told to thee what thee it is necessary to do . * The and men those traveling with him , stood dumb , hearing indeed the voice , no one but seeing . * Arose and the Saul from the earth ; having been opened and the eyes of him , no one he saw ; leading by the hand and him they led into Damascus ; * and he was days three not seeing ; and not ate , nor drank . * Was and a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias , and said to him the Lord in a vision : Ananias . He and said : Lo I , O Lord . * The and Lord to him : Having arisen go thou to the street that being called Straight , and seek for in house of Judas , Saul by name , of Tarsus ; lo for he prays , * and saw in a vision a man by name Ananias , having come in and having placed to him a hand , that he might receive sight . * Answered and Ananias : O Lord , I have heard from many concerning the man this , what things bad he did to the saints of thee in Jerusalem . * And here he has authority from the high –priests , to bind all those calling upon the name of thee . * Said and to him the Lord : Go thou , because a vessel chosen to me is this , of the to bear the name of me before nations , and kings , sons and of Israel . * I for will point out to him , what things it behooves him in behalf of the name of me to suffer . * Went away and Ananias and entered into the house ; and having placed on him the hands , he said : Saul O brother , the Lord has sent me , (Jesus he having appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest ,) that thou mayest receive sight , and mayest be filled of spirit holy . * And immediately fell from the eyes of him as it were scales , he recovered sight and ; and having arisen he was dipped . * And having taken food he was strengthened . He was and with the in Damascus disciples days several . * And immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Jesus , that this is the son of the God . * Were amazed and all those having heard , and said : Not this is the one having wasted in Jerusalem those calling upon the name this ? and here for this had come , that having bound them he might lead to the high –priests . * Saul but more was strengthened , and perplexed the Jews those dwelling in Damascus , proving , that this is the Anointed . * When and were fulfilled days many , consulted together the Jews to kill him ; * was made known but to the Saul the plot of them ; they were watching and the gates day both and night , that him they might kill . * Having taken but him the disciples by night , they let down through the wall , lowering in a basket .

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