Acts 22:7-17

7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'

8 "And I answered, 'Who are You, Lord?' And He said to me, 'I am ¹Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'

9 "And those who were with me ²saw the light, to be sure, but ³did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

10 "And I said, '⁴What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.'

11 "But since I ⁵could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.

12 "A certain ⁶Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and ⁷well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

13 came to me, and standing near said to me, '⁸Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And ⁹at that very time I looked up at him.

14 "And he said, '¹⁰The God of our fathers has ¹¹appointed you to know His will and to ¹²see the ¹³Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.

15 'For you will be ¹⁴a witness for Him to all men of ¹⁵what you have seen and heard.

16 'Now why do you delay? ¹⁶Get up and be baptized, and ¹⁷wash away your sins, ¹⁸calling on His name.'

17 "It happened when I ¹⁹returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I ²⁰fell into a trance,

Cross References

• 1. Acts 26:9
• 2. Acts 26:13
• 3. Acts 9:7
• 4. Acts 16:30
• 5. Acts 9:8
• 6. Acts 9:10
• 7. Acts 6:3; Acts 10:22
• 8. Acts 9:17
• 9. Acts 9:18
• 10. Acts 3:13
• 11. Acts 9:15; Acts 26:16
• 12. Acts 9:17; Acts 26:16; 1 Corinthians 9:1; 1 Corinthians 15:8
• 13. Acts 7:52
• 14. Acts 23:11; Acts 26:16
• 15. Acts 22:14
• 16. Acts 9:18
• 17. Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 5:26; Hebrews 10:22
• 18. Acts 7:59
• 19. Acts 9:26; Acts 26:20
• 20. Acts 10:10

Footnotes

• [a] Or "hear" (with comprehension)
• [b] Lit "glory"
• [c] Or "instantly;" lit "at the very hour"
• [d] Or "message;" lit "voice"