Acts 22

ECB^{(i) 1} Men, brothers, and fathers, hear now my pleading to you. ² And when they hear him address them in the Hebrew dialect, they present the more quiet. And he says, ³ I indeed am a man - a Yah Hudiy birthed in Tarsus, Cilicia, yet nurtured in this city at the feet of Gamli El; and disciplined according to the exactness of the torah of the fathers, and being a zealot toward Elohim - exactly as all of you this day: ⁴ and I persecuted this way to the death, binding and betraying both men and women into prisons: ⁵ as also the archpriest and all the presbytry witness of me: from whom I also received epistles to the brothers, and went to Dammeseq to bring the bound to Yeru Shalem to dishonor them. ⁶ And so be it, about midday, as I went and approached Dammeseq, suddenly a vast light from the heavens enveloped me ⁷ and I fell to the ground: and I heard a voice wording to me, Shaul, Shaul, why persecute you me? ⁸ And I answer, Who are you, Adonay? And he said to me, I AM Yah Shua the Nazarene whom you persecute. ⁹ And those with me indeed observed the light and became awestricken; but they heard not the voice of him who speaks to me. ¹⁰ And I said, What do I, Adonay? And Adonay said to me, Rise and go into Dammeseq; and there be spoken to concerning all you are ordained to do. ¹¹ And I looked not, because of the glory of that light; and those with me, hand led me, and I came to Dammeseq. ¹² And one Hanan Yah, a well-revered man according to the torah, well-witnessed by all the Yah Hudiym who settle there, ¹³ came to me, and stood by, and said to me, Brother Shaul, see! - and the same hour I saw him. ¹⁴ And he said, The Elohim of our fathers preselected you to know his will and see the Just One, and to hear the voice of his mouth: ¹⁵ because you become his witness to all humanity of what you saw and heard. ¹⁶ And now what are you about to do? Rise and be baptized and bathe your sins - calling on the name of Adonay. ¹⁷ And so be it, when I returned to Yeru Shalem, even as I prayed in the priestal precinct, I became in an ecstasis; ¹⁸ and saw him wording to me, Hasten, and quickly go from Yeru Shalem: because they receive not your witness concerning me. ¹⁹ And I said, Adonay, they understand that in every synagogue I imprisoned and flogged them who trust on you: ²⁰ and when they poured the blood of your witness Stephanos, I also stood by, and consented to taking him out, and guarded the garment of them who took him out. ²¹ And he said to me, Depart: for I apostolize you far hence to the goyim. ²² And they hear this word, and they lift their voice, and word, Away with such from the earth! For it is not becoming for him to live! ²³ And as they cry out, and toss their garments and cast dust into the air, ²⁴ the chiliarch summons to bring him into the encampment, and says to test him by scourging; to know for what cause they shout thus against him. ²⁵ And as they stretch him with thongs, Paulos says to the centurion who stands by, Are you allowed to scourge a human - a Roman and unsentenced? ²⁶ And the centurion hears that, and he goes and evangelizes the chiliarch, wording, See what you are about to do: for this human is a Roman. ²⁷ And the chiliarch comes and says to him, Word to me, are you a Roman? He says, Yes. ²⁸ And the chiliarch answers, I acquired this citizenship with a vast sum. And Paulos says, But I - birthed. ²⁹ So straightway, they who are about to test him depart from him: and the chiliarch is also awestricken - knowing he is a Roman, and because he had bound him. ³⁰
PAULOS PLEADS TO THE SANHEDRIM
On the morrow, because he wills to know the certainty whereof he is accused of the Yah Hudiym, he looses him from his bonds; and summons the archpriests and all their sanhedrim to come; and brings Paulos down and sets him to them.