Acts 22:14-21

CLV(i) 14 Now he said. 'The God of our fathers fixes upon you beforehand to know His will, and to be acquainted with the Just One, and to hear the voice of His mouth, 15 that you shall be His witness to all men of what you have seen and hear. 16 And now, why do you defer? Rise, be baptized, and bathe off your sins, invoking His name.'" 17 Now it occurred, at my returning to Jerusalem and while I am praying in the sanctuary, I come to be in an ecstasy" 18 and to perceive Him saying to me, 'Hurry, and come quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be assenting to your testimony concerning Me.'" 19 And I said, 'Lord, they are versed in the fact that I was jailing and lashing those at the synagogues who are believing on Thee." 20 And when the blood of Stephen, Thy witness, was shed, I myself also was standing by, endorsing it, as well as guarding the garments of those who are assassinating him.'" 21 And He said to me, 'Go! For I shall be delegating you afar to the nations.'"