Acts 22 Cross References - Williams

¹ "Brothers and fathers, listen now to what I have to say in my defense." ² When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued: ³ "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today. ⁴ I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail, ⁵ as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished. ⁶ But on my way, just before I reached Damascus, suddenly about noon a blaze of light from heaven flashed around me, ⁷ and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?' ⁸ I answered, 'Who are you, Sir?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.' ⁹ The men who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of Him who was speaking to me. ¹⁰ Then I asked, 'What am I to do, Lord?' And the Lord answered, 'Get up and go into Damascus, and there it will be told you what you are destined to do.' ¹¹ Since I could not see because of the dazzling sheen of that light, I was led by the hand by my companions and in this way I reached Damascus. ¹² There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side said to me, 'Saul, my brother, recover your sight!' Then instantly I did recover it and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak, ¹⁵ because you are to be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.' ¹⁷ After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste and at once get out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' ¹⁹ So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.' ²¹ Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'" ²² They listened to him until he said this, and then all at once they shouted, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is certainly not fit to live!" ²³ While they were shouting and tossing their clothes about and flinging dust into the air, ²⁴ the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way. ²⁵ But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?" ²⁶ When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen." ²⁷ So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes." ²⁸ Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." ²⁹ So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound. ³⁰ The next day, as he wished to learn the exact reason why the Jews accused him, he had him unbound, and ordered the high priest and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

²³ He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

²² But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

⁸ But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured.

¹⁴ And whoever will not welcome you, or listen to your words, on leaving that place shake off from your feet its very dust.

¹⁷ Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

²³ But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

⁴⁰ "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes Him who sent me. ⁴¹ Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man as such will receive the same reward as the upright man. ⁴² And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

² And in their presence His appearance was changed and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes turned as white as light.

⁴⁰ And the King will answer them, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you did a good deed to one of these most insignificant brothers of mine, you did a good deed to me.'

⁴⁵ Then He will answer, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you failed to do a good deed to one of these most insignificant people, you failed to do a good deed to me.'

² So they bound Him, led Him away, and turned Him over to Pilate the governor.

²³ He asked, "Why, what has He done that is wrong?" But they kept on shouting louder and louder, "Have Him crucified!"

⁵⁴ And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

²⁵ Now there was in Jerusalem a man named Symeon, an upright, devout man; he was expecting to see the consolation of Israel, and he was under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

⁴⁶ And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

³⁵ So the people went out to see what had taken place, and they went to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, with his clothes on and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

³⁹ She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

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

¹¹ Now when they are bringing you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, never worry about how to defend yourselves, or what to say,

¹⁴ So you must purpose in your hearts not to prepare beforehand how to make your defense,

²¹ Then let those in Judea begin to fly to the mountains, and those within the city begin to get out of it,

⁶⁶ As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled, and brought Him back before their council, and said,

¹⁸ But they all together began to shout, "Away with this fellow, but let us have Barabbas released!

⁴⁷ and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem ⁴⁸ you are to continue as witnesses to these things.

²⁹ The crowd of bystanders on hearing it said that it was thunder; others, however, said, "An angel has spoken to Him!" ³⁰ Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours.

¹⁶ You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

²⁷ And you too are to bear testimony to me, because you have been with me from the start."

¹ So then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

¹⁵ But they shouted, "Kill Him! Kill Him! Crucify Him!" Pilate said to them, "Must I crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

⁸ but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."

²² from the time of His baptism by John down to the day when He was taken up from us, must be added to our number as a witness to His resurrection."

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

³⁷ When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" ³⁸ Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

⁶ But Peter said, "No silver or gold have I, but what I do have I will give you. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth start walking."

¹³ The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you yourselves betrayed and disowned before Pilate, although he had decided to set Him free. ¹⁴ Yes, you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked a murderer to be pardoned as a favor to you,

¹⁹ So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,

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

¹⁰ you and all the people of Israel must know that it is by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead -- yes, I repeat it, it is by His authority that this man stands here before you well.

²⁰ for we cannot keep from telling what we have seen and heard."

²¹ So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

³⁰ The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life after you had hanged Him on a cross and killed Him.

³⁴ But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, highly respected by all the people, got up in the council and gave orders to put the men out of the council a little while;

³ So, brothers, you must select from your number seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit, and of good practical sense, and we will assign them to this business,

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

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

² He answered: "Listen, brothers and fathers. The glorious God appeared to our forefather Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia before he ever made his home in Haran,

⁵² Which of the prophets did your forefathers fail to persecute? They killed the prophets who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered Him, ⁵³ you who received the law by order of the angels, and yet you did not obey it!" ⁵⁴ As they continued to listen to this address, they were becoming infuriated and began to grind their teeth at him. ⁵⁵ But since he was full of the Holy Spirit, he looked right into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand. ⁵⁶ So he said, "Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand." ⁵⁷ But they raised a great shout and held their ears, and all together rushed upon him, ⁵⁸ and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him. The witnesses, in the meantime, laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

¹ Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.

¹ Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria. ² Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation for him.

² Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation for him. ³ But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.

³ But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison. ⁴ Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

¹ Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

¹ Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest ² and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that if he found any men or women belonging to The Way he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem. ³ As he traveled on he finally approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. ⁴ He dropped to the ground; then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ He asked, "Who are you, sir?" And He said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. ⁶ But get up and go into the city, and there it will be told you what you ought to do."

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

⁷ His fellow-travelers stood speechless, for they heard the voice but could not see anyone. ⁸ Then Saul got up off the ground, but he could not see anything, although his eyes were wide open. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus,

⁸ Then Saul got up off the ground, but he could not see anything, although his eyes were wide open. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus, ⁹ and for three days he could not see, and he did not eat or drink anything. ¹⁰ Now there was in Damascus a disciple named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he answered, "Yes, Lord, I am here." ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for one named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is now praying there.

¹¹ And the Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for one named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is now praying there. ¹² He has seen in a vision 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, especially the great sufferings he has brought on your people in Jerusalem.

¹³ But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, especially the great sufferings he has brought on your people in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Now he is here and has authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call upon your name."

¹⁴ Now he is here and has authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call upon your name."

¹⁴ Now he is here and has authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call upon your name." ¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name to the heathen and their kings, and to the descendants of Israel. ¹⁶ For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake." ¹⁷ So Ananias left and went to that house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said, "Saul, my. brother, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were coming here, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

¹⁷ So Ananias left and went to that house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said, "Saul, my. brother, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were coming here, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." ¹⁸ And all at once something like scales fell from his eyes, he regained his sight, got up and was baptized,

¹⁸ And all at once something like scales fell from his eyes, he regained his sight, got up and was baptized,

²¹ And all who heard him were astounded and said, "Is not this the man who harassed those who called upon this name in Jerusalem, and has come here expressly for the purpose of putting them in chains and taking them back to the high priests?"

²⁶ Now when Saul arrived at Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples there, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was really a disciple. ²⁷ Barnabas, however, took him up and presented him to the apostles, and he told them how on the road he had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus at Damascus. ²⁸ So he was one of them, going in and out constantly at Jerusalem, ²⁹ and he continued to speak courageously in the name of the Lord, and to speak and debate with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they kept trying to murder him. ³⁰ So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

¹ Now at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a colonel in what was known as the Italian regiment,

⁹ The next day, while those men were traveling on and not far from the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray. ¹⁰ But he got very hungry and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance

²² They answered, "Cornelius, a colonel in the army, an upright man and one who reveres God, and a man of high reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to listen to a message you would bring."

³³ So at once I sent for you, and you have been kind enough to come. So now we are all here in God's presence to listen to anything that the Lord has commanded you to say."

³⁹ We are witnesses of everything that He did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they murdered Him by hanging Him upon a tree. ⁴⁰ But God raised Him to life on the third day, and permitted Him to be dearly seen, ⁴¹ not by all the people but by witnesses whom God had beforehand appointed, namely, by us who ate and drank with Him after His resurrection from the dead.

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

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

¹¹ Right now the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be so blind that you cannot see the sun for a time." And suddenly a dark mist fell upon him, and he kept groping about begging people to lead him by the hand.

¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our forefathers, and made this people important during their stay in Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of it.

²⁶ Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas courageously spoke out, "God's message had to be spoken to you Jews first, but since you continue to thrust it from you and since you show yourselves unworthy to receive eternal life, now and here we turn to the heathen. ⁴⁷ For here are the orders that the Lord has given us: 'I have made you a light to the heathen, To be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

²³ They sent this letter by them: "The apostles and elders as brothers send greeting to the brothers from among the heathen in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.

⁴¹ He journeyed on through Syria and Cilicia and continued to strengthen the churches.

¹⁷ This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."

²² The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, and the chiefs of the police court had them stripped and flogged. ²³ After flogging them severely, they put them into jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch on them.

³⁰ After leading them out of the jail, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

³⁷ But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public and that without a trial, and put us in jail although we are Roman citizens! Let them come here themselves and take us out!" ³⁸ The policemen reported this message to the chiefs of the police court, and they became alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens, ³⁹ and came and pleaded with them, and took them out and begged them to leave town.

⁴ So some of them were convinced, and they joined Paul and Silas; also quite a number of devout Greeks and not a few women of the first rank.

⁶ But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads! I am not to blame for it myself. Hereafter I am going to the heathen."

²⁶ He started speaking courageously in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home with them and more accurately explained the way of God to him.

⁹ But as some of them grew harder and harder and refused to believe, actually criticizing The Way before the people, he left them, withdrew his disciples, and continued his discussions in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

²³ Now just about that time a great commotion arose about The Way.

³³ Some of the crowd concluded that it was Alexander, since the Jews had pushed him to the front, and since Alexander had made a gesture of the hand as though he would make a defense before the people.

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

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

³¹ Now while they were trying to kill him, news reached the colonel of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in a ferment. ³² So he at once got together some soldiers and captains and hurried down against them, but as soon as they saw the colonel and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. ³³ Then the colonel came up and seized Paul and ordered him to be bound with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ But they kept shouting in the crowd, some one thing, some another. As he could not with certainty find out about it, because of the tumult, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

³⁶ for a tremendous crowd of people kept following them and shouting, "Away with him!"

³⁹ Paul answered, "I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people." ⁴⁰ He granted the request, and Paul, as he was standing on the steps, made a gesture to the people, and after everybody had quieted down, he spoke to them in Hebrew as follows:

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

⁴ I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail, ⁵ as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. Indeed, I had received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was on the way there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

¹² There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side said to me, 'Saul, my brother, recover your sight!' Then instantly I did recover it and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak,

¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak, ¹⁵ because you are to be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.'

¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste and at once get out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' ¹⁹ So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.'

²⁴ the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way. ²⁵ But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?"

²⁵ But when they had tied him for the flogging, Paul asked the captain who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman, and one who is uncondemned at that?" ²⁶ When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen."

²⁶ When the captain heard that, he went to the colonel and reported it. Then he asked him, "What are you going to do? This man is a Roman citizen." ²⁷ So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes."

²⁷ So the colonel came to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" He answered, "Yes." ²⁸ Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen."

²⁸ Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." ²⁹ So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

²⁹ So the men who were going to examine him left him at once, and the colonel himself was frightened when he learned that he was a Roman citizen and that he had had him bound.

¹ Paul fixed his eyes upon the council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty to God up to this very day."

⁶ Because Paul knew that part of them were Sadducees and part of them Pharisees, he began to cry out in the council chamber, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a Pharisee's son, and now I am on trial for the hope of the resurrection of the dead."

¹⁰ Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks. ¹¹ But that same night the Lord stood by Paul's side and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify for me in Rome, too."

¹⁵ So you and the council must now notify the colonel to bring him down to you, as though you were going to look into his case more carefully, but before he gets down we will be ready to kill him."

¹⁷ So Paul called one of the captains and said, "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 on the point of killing him when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen. ²⁸ As I wanted to know the exact charge they were making against him, I brought him before their council,

³⁴ He read the letter and asked Paul what province he was from, and on learning that he was from Cilicia,

¹⁰ At the governor's signal to Paul, he answered: "Since I know that you for many years have acted as judge for this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,

¹⁴ But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,

⁸ Paul continued to maintain, in his defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or temple or against the emperor."

¹⁶ I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to give up anyone for punishment until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against their accusations.

²⁴ Then Festus said: "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you now see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation made suit to me, both in Jerusalem and here, continuously clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

¹ Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak in defense of yourself." So Paul with outstretched arm began to make his defense. ² "I count myself fortunate, King Agrippa," said he, "that it is before you that I can defend myself today against all the charges which the Jews have preferred against me,

⁵ for they have known all along from the first, if they would but testify to it, that I as a Pharisee have lived by the standard of the strictest sect of our religion.

⁹ I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹ I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

⁹ I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues

¹⁰ That was what I did at Jerusalem; yes, I received authority from the high priests and shut behind the prison bars many of God's people. Yes, when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them, and often in all the synagogues ¹¹ I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

¹¹ I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

¹¹ I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns. ¹² While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests,

¹² While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests,

¹² While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests, ¹³ and 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 and 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 continue to persecute me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking 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 continue to persecute me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the goad.' ¹⁵ 'Who are you, Sir?' said I. 'I am Jesus,' the Lord said, 'whom you are persecuting.

¹⁵ 'Who are you, Sir?' said I. 'I am Jesus,' the Lord said, 'whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you my servant and a witness to me of the things which you have seen and those which I shall yet enable you to see.

¹⁶ But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you my servant and a witness to me of the things which you have seen and those which I shall yet enable you to see. ¹⁷ I will continue to rescue you from the Jewish people and from the heathen to whom I am going to send you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

²⁰ but I began to preach first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem, and all over Judea, and then to the heathen, to repent and turn to God, and to live lives consistent with such repentance.

²⁴ As Paul continued to make his defense, Festus shouted aloud, "You are going crazy, Paul! That great learning of yours is driving you crazy!"

²⁹ Paul answered, "In brief or at length, I would to God that not only you but all my hearers today were what I am -- excepting these chains!"

¹ When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they turned over Paul and some other prisoners to a colonel of the imperial regiment, named Julius.

³ The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius kindly permitted Paul to visit his friends and enjoy their attentions.

²⁴ and said, "Stop being afraid, Paul. You must stand before the Emperor; and listen! God has graciously given to you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'

⁴³ but the colonel wanted to save Paul, and so he prevented them from carrying out this plan, and ordered all who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land, and the rest to follow,

¹⁷ Three days later, he invited the leading men of the 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 at Jerusalem I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner.

²¹ They answered him, "We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and not one of our Jewish brothers has come and reported or stated anything wicked about you.

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

⁵ through whom we have received God's favor and a commission as an apostle in His name to urge upon all the heathen obedience inspired by faith,

³² Although they know full well God's sentence that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only practice them but even applaud others who do them.

¹⁵ for they show that the deeds the law demands are written on their hearts, because their consciences will testify for them, and their inner thoughts will either accuse or defend them,

³ Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? ⁴ So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

³ for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen. ⁴ For they are Israelites; to them belong the privileges of sonship, God's glorious presence, the special covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, the promises,

² For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so. ³ For they were ignorant of God's way of right standing and were trying to set up one of their own, and so would not surrender to God's way of right standing.

¹² But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him. ¹³ For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?

¹ I say then, God has not disowned His people, has He? Of course not! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

¹³ Yes, I now am speaking to you who are a part of the heathen peoples. As I am an apostle to the heathen peoples, I am making the most of my ministry to them, to see

¹⁶ in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

²⁶ but now has been fully brought to light by means of the prophetic Scriptures, and in accordance with the command of the eternal God has been made known to all the heathen, to win them to obedience inspired by faith --

² to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

¹¹ And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of 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 for the Lord?

³ My vindication of myself to those who are investigating me is this:

²³ For the account that I passed on to you I myself received from the Lord Himself, that the Lord Jesus on the night He was betrayed took a loaf of bread

¹² For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit all of us, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen, have been baptized into one body, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

²⁶ If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it. If one part receives an honor, all the parts can share its joy. ²⁷ So you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

³ For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,

⁸ He was seen by me, too, as though I were born out of time. ⁹ For I belong to the lowest rank of the apostles, and am not fit to bear the title apostle, because I once persecuted the church of God.

²¹ He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

⁸ in honor or dishonor, in slander or praise; considered a deceiver and yet true,

¹¹ For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

¹ I have to keep on boasting. There is no good to be gotten from it, but I will go on to visions and revelations which the Lord has given me. ² I know a man in union with Christ fourteen years ago -- whether in the body or out of it, I do not know, but God knows -- who was caught up to the third heaven. ³ Yes, I know that this man -- whether in or out of the body, I do not know, but God knows -- ⁴ was actually caught up into paradise, and heard things that must not be told, which no man has a right even to mention.

¹⁹ Are you thinking all this time that I am defending myself to you? It is in the very presence of God and as one who is in union with Christ that I am speaking. And it is all for building you up, beloved, for I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, when I come I shall find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me.

¹² for I did not get it from any man; I was not taught it, but I got it through a revelation given by Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers. ¹⁵ But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor,

¹⁵ But when God, who had already set me apart from my birth, and had called me by His unmerited favor, ¹⁶ chose to unveil His Son in me, so that I might preach the good news about Him among the heathen, at once, before I conferred with any human creatures,

¹⁸ Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas, but I spent only two weeks with him;

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

⁷ On the contrary, because they saw that I had been entrusted with the good news for the heathen, just as Peter had been entrusted with it for the Jews -- ⁸ for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship 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 paying you special attention, but not sincerely. They want to shut you off from me, so that you may keep on paying them special attention. ¹⁸ Now it is a fine thing to have special attention paid you, if it is done sincerely and unceasingly, and not only when I am with you.

⁶ that the heathen through union with Christ Jesus are fellow-heirs with the Jews, are members with them of the same body, and sharers with them of the promise through the good news, ⁷ for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power-- ⁸ yes, on me, the very least of all His people, this unmerited favor was bestowed -- that I might preach as good news to the heathen the boundless riches of Christ,

⁷ And I have a right to think this way about you, because I always have you in my heart, whether shut up in prison or out defending and vindicating the good news, for you are sharers with me of God's favor.

¹⁷ the former are preaching Christ from the motive of rivalry, not in sincerity, supposing that this is making it harder for me to bear my imprisonment.

⁵ circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee; ⁶ by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

⁶ by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

¹³ though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief,

¹³ though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief, ¹⁴ and the spiritual blessing of our Lord in increasing floods has come upon me, accompanied by faith and love inspired by union with Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

⁷ and for which purpose I was appointed a preacher and an apostle -- I am telling the truth, I am not lying, -- a teacher of the heathen in the realm of faith and truth.

⁷ He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.

¹⁴ Stop neglecting the gift you received, which was given you through prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in accordance with the promise of the life that comes through union with Christ Jesus,

¹¹ Of this good news I have been appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

¹⁶ When I first defended myself at court, nobody came to help me, but everybody deserted me. May it never be charged to their account.

¹ Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to stimulate faith in God's chosen people and to lead them on to a full knowledge of religious truth,

⁵ He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁶ not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dearly loved brother, especially to me and much more to you, both as a servant and as a Christian.

²² let us continue to draw near to God with sincere hearts and perfect faith; with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies bathed in clean water;

² For by it the men of old won God's approval.

³⁵ Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

²² He never committed a sin, and deceit was never found on His lips.

¹⁵ but in your hearts be consecrated to Christ as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who asks a reason for the hope you have. But you must do it in gentleness and reverence,

²¹ Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward 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 ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.

¹² Demetrius has a good testimony from everybody and from truth itself; yea, from me too, and you know that my testimony to him is true.

¹⁰ On the Lord's day I was in the Spirit's power, and I heard a voice like a trumpet behind me say:

¹⁶ In His right hand He was holding seven stars, and a sharp, double-edged sword was coming out of His mouth, and His face was shining like the sun at midday.

¹³ "I know where you live, where Satan has his throne. Yet you are clinging to my name and have never renounced your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful martyred witness, who was put to death among you, right where Satan lives,

⁶ I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of the martyred witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astonished,