Mark 5:19 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁹ but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

²⁹ "Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you." ² When they heard him addressing them in Hebrew they were all the more quiet. So he went on. ³ "I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day. ⁴ I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women, ⁵ as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment. ⁶ Now as I neared Damascus on my journey, suddenly about noon a brilliant light from heaven flashed round me. ⁷ I dropped to the earth and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' ⁸ 'Who are you?' I asked. He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are persecuting me.' ⁹ (My companions saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of him who talked to me.) ¹⁰ I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there·you shall be told about all you are destined to do.' ¹¹ As I could not see owing to the dazzling glare of that light,. my companions took my hand and so I reached Damascus. ¹² Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants, ¹³ came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him. ¹⁴ Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips. ¹⁵ For you are to be a witness for him before all men, a witness of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.' ¹⁷ When I returned to Jerusalem, it happened that while I was praying in the temple I fell into a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.' ¹⁹ 'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues, ²⁰ and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!' ²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

⁴ How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews. ⁵ They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion. ⁶ To-day I am standing my trial for hoping in the promise made by God to our fathers, ⁷ a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king! ⁸ [Move to the beginning of vs 23] Why should you consider it incredible that God raises the dead, ⁹ I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene. ¹⁰ I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them; ¹¹ there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns. ¹² I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests, ¹³ when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? You hurt yourself by kicking at the goad.' ¹⁵ 'Who are you?' I asked. And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, and you are persecuting me. ¹⁶ Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me. ¹⁷ I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles — to whom I send you, ¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.' ¹⁹ Upon this, O king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision; ²⁰ I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance. ²¹ This is why the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to assassinate me. ²² To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place. ²³ that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?" ²⁴ When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane." ²⁵ "Your excellency," said Paul to Festus, "I am not mad, I am speaking the sober truth. ²⁶ Why, the king is well aware of this! To the king I can speak without the slightest hesitation. I do not believe any of it has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner. ²⁷ King Agrippa, you believe the prophets? I know you do." ²⁸ "At this rate," Agrippa remarked, "it won't be long before you believe you have made a Christian of me!" ²⁹ "Long or short," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you but all my hearers to-day could be what I am — barring these chains!"