geneva Acts:21:27-22:29

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geneva@Acts:21:28 @ Crying, Men of Israel, helpe: this is the man that teacheth all men euery where against the people, and the Lawe, and this place: moreouer, he hath brought Grecians into the Temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

geneva@Acts:21:29 @ For they had seene before Trophimus an Ephesian with him in the citie, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the Temple.

geneva@Acts:21:30 @ Then all the citie was moued, and the people ran together: and they tooke Paul and drewe him out of the Temple, and forth with the doores were shut.

geneva@Acts:21:31 @

geneva@Acts:21:32 @ Who immediately tooke souldiers & Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they sawe the chiefe Captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.

geneva@Acts:21:33 @ Then the chiefe Captaine came neere and tooke him, and commaunded him to be bound with two chaines, and demaunded who he was, and what he had done.

geneva@Acts:21:34 @ And one cryed this, another that, among the people. So when he could not know the certeintie for the tumult, he commaunded him to be led into the castell.

geneva@Acts:21:35 @ And when hee came vnto the grieces, it was so that he was borne of the souldiers, for the violence of the people.

geneva@Acts:21:36 @ For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

geneva@Acts:21:37 @ And as Paul should haue bene led into the castell, he sayd vnto the chiefe Captaine, May I speake vnto thee? Who sayd, Canst thou speake Greeke?

geneva@Acts:21:38 @ Art not thou that (note:)Concerning this Egyptian who assembled thirty thousand men, read Josephus, book 2, chap. 12.(:note) Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

geneva@Acts:21:39 @ Then Paul sayde, Doubtlesse, I am a man which am a Iewe, and citizen of Tarsus, a famous citie of Cilicia, and I beseech thee, suffer mee to speake vnto the people.

geneva@Acts:21:40 @ And when he had giuen him licence, Paul stoode on the grieces, & beckened with the hand vnto the people: and when there was made great silence, hee spake vnto them in the Hebrewe tongue, saying,

geneva@Acts:22:1 @ Ye men, brethren and Fathers, heare my defence nowe towards you.

geneva@Acts:22:2 @ (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrewe tongue to them, they kept the more silence, and he sayd)

geneva@Acts:22:3 @

geneva@Acts:22:4 @ And I persecuted this way vnto the death, binding and deliuering into prison both men and women.

geneva@Acts:22:5 @ As also ye chiefe Priest doeth beare me witnes, & al the company of the Elders: of whom also I receiued letters vnto the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring them which were there, bound vnto Hierusalem, that they might be punished.

geneva@Acts:22:6 @ And so it was, as I iourneyed and was come neere vnto Damascus about noone, that suddenly there shone from heauen a great light round about me.

geneva@Acts:22:7 @ So I fell vnto the earth, and heard a voyce, saying vnto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou mee?

geneva@Acts:22:8 @ Then I answered, Who art thou, Lorde? And he said to me, I am Iesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

geneva@Acts:22:9 @ Moreouer they that were with me, sawe in deede a light and were afraide: but they heard not the voyce of him that spake vnto me.

geneva@Acts:22:10 @ Then I sayd, What shall I doe, Lord? And the Lorde sayde vnto me, Arise, and goe into Damascus: and there it shall be tolde thee of all things, which are appointed for thee to doe.

geneva@Acts:22:11 @ So when I could not see for the glory of that light, I was led by the hand of them that were with me, and came into Damascus.

geneva@Acts:22:12 @ And one Ananias a godly man, as perteining to the Lawe, hauing good report of all the Iewes which dwelt there,

geneva@Acts:22:13 @ Came vnto me, and stoode, and sayd vnto me, Brother Saul, receiue thy sight: and that same houre I looked vpon him.

geneva@Acts:22:14 @ And he sayd, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee, that thou shouldest knowe his wil, and shouldest see that Iust one, and shouldest heare the voyce of his mouth.

geneva@Acts:22:15 @ For thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men, of the things which thou hast seene and heard.

geneva@Acts:22:16 @ Now therefore why tariest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sinnes, in calling on the Name of the Lord.

geneva@Acts:22:17 @ And it came to passe, that when I was come againe to Hierusalem, and prayed in the Temple, I was in a traunce,

geneva@Acts:22:18 @ And saw him saying vnto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Hierusalem: for they will not receiue thy witnes concerning me.

geneva@Acts:22:19 @ Then I sayd, Lord, they know that I prisoned, and beat in euery Synagogue them that beleeued in thee.

geneva@Acts:22:20 @ And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that (note:)This is properly spoken, for Steven was murdered by a bunch of cutthroats, not by order of justice, but by open force: for at that time the Jews could not put any man to death by law.(:note) slew him.

geneva@Acts:22:21 @ Then he sayd vnto me, Depart: for I will send thee farre hence vnto the Gentiles.

geneva@Acts:22:22 @

geneva@Acts:22:23 @ And as they (note:)The description of a seditious tumult, and of a foolish and mad multitude.(:note) cried out, and cast off [their] clothes, and threw dust into the air,

geneva@Acts:22:24 @

geneva@Acts:22:25 @

geneva@Acts:22:26 @ Nowe when the Centurion heard it, hee went, and tolde the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest: for this man is a Romane.

geneva@Acts:22:27 @ Then the chiefe captaine came, and sayd to him, Tel me, art thou a Romane? And he said, Yea.

geneva@Acts:22:28 @ And the chiefe captaine answered, With a great summe obtained I this freedome. Then Paul sayd, But I was so borne.

geneva@Acts:22:29 @ Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was (note:)Not by nation, but by the law of his city of birth.(:note) a Roman, and because he had bound him.

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