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But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest
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and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.
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But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,
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and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], *I* am Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.
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But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
[a].
* The Christian way: see Mark 10.32,52; Acts 19.9,23; 22.4; 24.14,22.
[b].
The word is used for a very brilliant apparition: see Luke 17.24, 'lightens;' 24.4, 'shining.' It is the same Greek root as 'lightning.'
[c].
Phone, accusative; in ver. 7 genitive; in ch. 22.9,14 accusative; in ch. 22.7 genitive. The genitive is 'to listen to,' or when the voice of a rumour reaches. It is the fact or physical hearing. The accusative is that the thing heard is before the mind.
[d].
The rest of ver. 5 and part of ver. 6, as in the A.V., is not found in the best manuscripts.