Acts 22 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹ "Brothers and fathers," he said, "listen to what I have to say in my defense." ² When they heard him speak to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he said, ³ "I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison, ⁵ as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. ⁶ But on my way, as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly about noon, a blaze of light flashed around me from heaven, ⁷ and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?' ⁸ I answered, 'Who are you, sir?' 'I am Jesus of Nazareth,' he said, 'whom you are persecuting.' ⁹ The men who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me. ¹⁰ Then I said, 'What am I to do, sir?' The Lord said to me, 'Get up and go into Damascus. There you will be told of all you are destined to do.' ¹¹ As I could not see, because of the dazzling light, my companions had to lead me by the hand, and so I reached Damascus. ¹² There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side, said to me, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' Then instantly I regained my sight and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak, ¹⁵ for you shall be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.' ¹⁷ After I had returned to Jerusalem, one day when I was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' " ²² They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!" ²³ As they were shouting and throwing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air, ²⁴ the colonel ordered Paul brought into the barracks, and gave directions that he should be examined under the lash, so that he might find out why they made such an outcry against him. ²⁵ But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?" ²⁶ Upon hearing this, the officer went to the colonel and reported it. "What do you propose to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen." ²⁷ Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said. ²⁸ "I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul. ²⁹ Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound. ³⁰ The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

²³ and he went and settled in a town called Nazareth, in fulfilment of the saying of the prophets, "He shall be called a Nazarene."

²² But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!

⁸ But the captain answered, "I am not a suitable person, sir, to have you come under my roof, but simply say the word, and my servant will be cured.

¹⁴ And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.

¹⁷ But be on your guard against men, for they will give you up to their courts, and have you flogged in their synagogues,

²³ But when they persecute you in one town, make your escape to another, for I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man arrives.

⁴⁰ "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me. ⁴¹ Whoever welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will have the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man because he is upright will have the same reward as an upright man. ⁴² And no one who will give the humblest of my disciples even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, I tell you, can ever fail of his reward."

² And his appearance underwent a change in their presence and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

⁴⁰ The king will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you did it to one of the humblest of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.'

⁴⁵ Then he will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you failed to do it for one of these people who are humblest, you failed to do it for me.'

² And they bound him and led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

²³ He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

⁵⁴ And the captain and the men with him who were watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, were dreadfully frightened and said, "He surely must have been a son of God!"

²⁵ Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ And on the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

³⁵ And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

³⁹ She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

⁴⁸ So you testify to what your fathers did and approve it, for they killed them and you build their monuments.

¹¹ When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

¹⁴ So make up your minds not to prepare your defense,

²¹ Then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills, those who are in the city must get out of it, and those who are in the country must not go into it,

⁶⁶ As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

¹⁸ But they all shouted out, "Kill him, and release Barabbas for us!"

⁴⁷ and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name. ⁴⁸ You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

²⁹ The crowd of bystanders heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, "It was an angel speaking to him!" ³⁰ Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

¹⁶ It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

²⁷ and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.

¹ Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

¹⁵ At that they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

⁸ but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

²² from his baptism by John to the time when he was caught up from us, must join us as a witness to his resurrection."

²¹ Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

³⁷ When they heard this, they were stung to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" ³⁸ Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,

⁶ But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!"

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go. ¹⁴ But you disowned the Holy, Righteous One. You asked to have a murderer released for you,

¹⁹ So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

⁵ On the next day the leading members of the council, the elders, and the scribes met in Jerusalem,

¹⁰ you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

²⁰ for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

²¹ And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

³⁰ The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

³⁴ But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

³ You, brothers, must pick out from your number seven men of good standing, who are wise and full of the Spirit, and we will put them in charge of this matter,

⁹ But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia undertook to debate with Stephen,

¹⁴ for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."

² He answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The glorious God appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed— ⁵³ you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!" ⁵⁴ When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him. ⁵⁵ But he, full of the holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at God's right hand. ⁵⁶ And he said, "Look! I can see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!" ⁵⁷ But they uttered a great shout and stopped their ears, and they rushed upon him all together, ⁵⁸ and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

¹ And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

¹ And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles. ² Some pious men buried Stephen and loudly lamented him.

² Some pious men buried Stephen and loudly lamented him. ³ But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

³ But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison. ⁴ Those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

¹ Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,

¹ Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest, ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem. ³ But on his journey, as he was approaching Damascus, a sudden light flashed around him from heaven, ⁴ and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?" ⁵ "Who are you, sir?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," said the voice. ⁶ "But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do."

⁶ "But get up and go into the city, and there you will be told what you ought to do." ⁷ Saul's fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone.

⁷ Saul's fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone. ⁸ When he got up from the ground and opened his eyes he could see nothing. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus,

⁸ When he got up from the ground and opened his eyes he could see nothing. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus, ⁹ and for three days he could not see, and neither ate nor drank. ¹⁰ There was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he answered, "Yes, Lord!" ¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying.

¹¹ The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying. ¹² He has had a vision and seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, to restore his sight." ¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, and the harm he has done to your people in Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, and the harm he has done to your people in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name."

¹⁴ He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name."

¹⁴ He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name." ¹⁵ The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

¹⁵ The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel. ¹⁶ For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake." ¹⁷ Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

¹⁷ Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit." ¹⁸ Something like scales immediately dropped from his eyes, and his sight was restored, and he got up and was baptized,

¹⁸ Something like scales immediately dropped from his eyes, and his sight was restored, and he got up and was baptized,

²¹ Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

²⁶ When he reached Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they could not believe that he was really a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas got hold of him and introduced him to the apostles, and he told them how on his journey he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly he had spoken for the cause of Jesus at Damascus. ²⁸ After that, he associated with them freely in Jerusalem, ²⁹ and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him. ³⁰ When the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

¹ There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.

⁹ The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray. ¹⁰ He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance,

²² They answered, "Cornelius, who is a captain, and an upright and God-fearing man, and who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to what you have to say."

³³ So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

³⁹ We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him. ⁴⁰ But God raised him to life on the third day and caused him to be plainly seen, ⁴¹ not by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had designated beforehand, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen from the dead.

²⁵ Then Barnabas went over to Tarsus to seek out Saul,

² As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."

¹¹ The Lord's hand is right upon you, and you will be blind and unable even to see the sun for a time." Instantly a mist of darkness fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to lead him by the hand.

¹⁷ The God of this people of Israel chose our forefathers, and made the people great during their stay in Egypt, and then with uplifted hand led them out of Egypt.

²⁶ Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen. ⁴⁷ For these are the orders the Lord has given us: " 'I have made you a light for the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth!' "

²³ They were the bearers of this letter: "The apostles and the brothers who are elders send greeting to the brothers of heathen birth in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.

⁴¹ He traveled through Syria and Cilicia and strengthened the churches.

¹⁷ This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."

²² The crowd also joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and beaten. ²³ After beating them severely, they put them in jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch of them.

³⁰ He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?"

³⁷ But Paul said to them, "They had us beaten in public without giving us a trial, and put us in jail, although we are Roman citizens! And now are they going to dismiss us secretly? By no means! Have them come here themselves and take us out!" ³⁸ The policemen delivered this message to the magistrates, and they were alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens, ³⁹ and came and conciliated them, and took them out of the jail, and begged them to leave the town.

⁴ He convinced some of them, and they joined Paul and Silas, along with a great many devout Greeks and a number of the principal women.

⁶ But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

²⁶ He spoke very confidently in the synagogue at first, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the Way of God to him more correctly.

⁹ But as some of them were obstinate and refused to believe, finding fault with the Way before the people, he left them, and withdrew the disciples, and held daily discussions in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

²³ Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way.

³³ Some of the crowd called upon Alexander, as the Jews had pushed him to the front, and he made a gesture with his hand and was going to speak in defense of them to the people.

¹¹ He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

²⁰ They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.

³¹ They were trying to kill him when the news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a tumult. ³² He immediately got some officers and men and hurried down among them, and when they saw the colonel and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul. ³³ Then the colonel came up and seized him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and then inquired who he was and what he had been doing. ³⁴ Some of the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and as he could not find out the facts on account of the confusion, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

³⁶ for the mass of people followed them shouting, "Kill him!"

³⁹ "I am a Jew," Paul answered, "from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you to let me speak to the people." ⁴⁰ He gave him permission, and Paul standing on the steps made a gesture to the people, and when they had become quiet he spoke to them in Hebrew.

¹ "Brothers and fathers," he said, "listen to what I have to say in my defense."

⁴ I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison, ⁵ as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

¹² There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side, said to me, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' Then instantly I regained my sight and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak,

¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak, ¹⁵ for you shall be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.'

²⁴ the colonel ordered Paul brought into the barracks, and gave directions that he should be examined under the lash, so that he might find out why they made such an outcry against him. ²⁵ But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?"

²⁵ But when they had strapped him up, Paul said to the officer who was standing near, "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen, and without giving him a trial?" ²⁶ Upon hearing this, the officer went to the colonel and reported it. "What do you propose to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen."

²⁶ Upon hearing this, the officer went to the colonel and reported it. "What do you propose to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen." ²⁷ Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

²⁷ Then the colonel came to Paul and said, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said. ²⁸ "I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul.

²⁸ "I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul. ²⁹ Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

²⁹ Then the men who had been going to examine him immediately left him, and the colonel himself was alarmed to find that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

¹ Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

⁶ Knowing that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, Paul called out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees! It is for my hope for the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

¹⁰ As the dispute was becoming violent, the colonel began to be afraid that they would tear Paul in pieces, and ordered the soldiers to go down and get him away from them and bring him into the barracks. ¹¹ On the following night the Lord stood beside him and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome also."

¹⁵ Now you and the council must suggest to the colonel that he should have Paul brought down to you, as you mean to look into his case more carefully, and we will be ready to kill him before he gets down."

¹⁷ Paul called one of the officers and said to him, "Take this young man to the colonel, for he has something to tell him."

²⁷ This man had been seized by the Jews and they were just going to kill him when I came upon them with my men and rescued him, as I had learned that he was a Roman citizen. ²⁸ As I wanted to learn what charge they made against him, I had him brought before their council,

³⁴ After reading the letter, he asked Paul what province he belonged to, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia,

¹⁰ The governor made a sign to Paul to speak, and he answered, "As I know that for many years you have acted as judge for this nation, I cheerfully undertake my defense,

¹⁴ I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

⁸ Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor."

¹⁶ I told them that it was not the Roman custom to give anybody up until the accused met his accusers face to face and had a chance to defend himself against their accusations.

²⁴ Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

¹ Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are at liberty to speak in your own defense." So Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense. ² "I think myself fortunate, King Agrippa," said he, "that it is before you that I am to defend myself today against all the things the Jews charge me with,

⁵ for they have known from the first, if they are willing to give evidence, that I was a Pharisee and my life was that of the strictest sect of our religion.

⁹ I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹ I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹ I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them,

¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them,

¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, ¹¹ and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

¹¹ and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

¹¹ and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns. ¹² I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests,

¹² I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests,

¹² I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests, ¹³ when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers.

¹³ when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'

¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!' ¹⁵ 'Who are you, sir?' said I. The Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

¹⁵ 'Who are you, sir?' said I. The Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.

¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me. ¹⁷ I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

²⁰ but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

²⁴ As he said this in his defense, Festus called out, "You are raving, Paul! Your great learning is driving you mad!"

²⁹ "In a hurry or not," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you, but all who hear me today, might be what I am—except for these chains!"

¹ When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.

³ The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius kindly allowed Paul to go and see his friends and be taken care of.

²⁴ and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the emperor, and see! God has given you the lives of all the people who are on the ship with you.'

⁴³ but the officer wanted to save Paul, and so he prevented them from doing this, and ordered all who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

¹⁷ Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

²¹ "We have had no letters about you from Judea," they answered, "and none of the brothers who have come here has reported or said anything against you.

¹ Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

⁵ through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

³² They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

¹⁵ for they show that what the Law demands is written on their hearts, and their consciences will testify for them, and with their thoughts they will either accuse or perhaps defend themselves,

³ Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death? ⁴ Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

³ for I could wish myself accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kindred. ⁴ For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,

² I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion. ³ For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

¹² There is no distinction between Jew and Greek for they all have the same Lord, and he is generous to all who call upon him. ¹³ For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?

¹ I ask then, has God repudiated his people? By no means. Why, I am an Israelite myself, I am descended from Abraham, and I belong to the tribe of Benjamin.

¹³ But it is to you who are of the heathen that I am speaking. So far then as I am an apostle to the heathen, I make the most of my ministry,

¹⁶ in making me a minister of Christ Jesus among the heathen, to act as a priest of God's good news, to see that the heathen are an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

²⁶ and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith—

² to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the product of my work in the Lord's service?

³ My answer to those who want to investigate me is this:

²³ For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread

¹² For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For we have all—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men—been baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

²⁶ If one part suffers, all the parts share its sufferings. If a part has honor done it, all the parts enjoy it too. ²⁷ Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

³ For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,

⁸ and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time. ⁹ For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

²¹ He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

⁸ in honor or dishonor, in praise or blame; considered an imposter, when I am true,

¹¹ See how earnest this God-given pain has made you! how eager to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager to see me, how zealous, how avenging! At every point you have proved that you are clear of this matter.

²² If they are Hebrews, so am I! If they are Israelites, so am I! If they are descended from Abraham, so am I!

¹ I have to boast. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations given me by the Lord. ² I know of a man fourteen years ago—whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, God knows—being actually caught up to the third heaven. ³ And I know that this man—I do not know whether it was in the body or out of it, God knows— ⁴ was caught up into Paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no human being can repeat.

¹⁹ Have you been supposing all along that it is before you I have been defending myself? It is in the sight of God and as a follower of Christ that I have been speaking. But it is all to do you good, dear friends,

¹² I did not receive it from any man, and I was not taught it, but it came to me through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down. ¹⁵ And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit

¹⁵ And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit ¹⁶ to reveal his Son to me, so that I might preach the good news about him to the heathen, immediately, instead of consulting with any human being,

¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;

²¹ After that, I went to the districts of Syria and Cilicia.

⁷ On the contrary, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been intrusted with it for the Jews— ⁸ for he who actuated Peter to be an apostle to the Jews also actuated me to be one to the heathen—

²⁷ For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

¹⁷ These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them. ¹⁸ But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly—not just when I can be with you,

⁶ that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news ⁷ for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me. ⁸ To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

⁷ And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

¹⁷ But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.

⁵ I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee; ⁶ as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

⁶ as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

¹³ though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,

¹³ though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, ¹⁴ and the blessing of our Lord has been given me in the greatest abundance, together with faith and love that union with Christ Jesus brings. ¹⁵ It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,

⁷ and I was appointed a herald and apostle of it—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—to teach the heathen faith and truth.

⁷ He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers.

¹⁴ Do not neglect the gift you have, that was given you with predictions of your work, when the elders laid their hands upon you.

¹ Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

¹¹ of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.

¹⁶ At my first appearance in court no one came to help me; everybody deserted me. May no one lay it up against them!

¹ Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,

⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

¹⁶ not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dear brother—dear especially to me, but how much dearer to you, both as a man and as a Christian!

²² let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water.

² For it was by it that the men of old gained God's approval.

³⁵ Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.

²² He committed no sin, and deceit was never on his lips.

¹⁵ but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,

²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

¹ My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

¹² Everybody testifies to Demetrius; the truth itself does; I testify to him too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.

¹⁰ On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me

¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; from his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword, and his face shone like the sun at noonday.

¹³ I know where you live; where Satan has his throne! Yet you cling to my name and did not renounce your faith in me even in the days when my faithful Antipas, my witness, was put to death among you—where Satan lives.

⁶ I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's people, and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her I was perfectly amazed,