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as the chefe prest doth beare me witnes and all the elders: of whom also I receaved letters vnto the brethren and wet to Damasco to bringe them which were there bounde vnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed.
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And it fortuned as I made my iorney and was come nye vnto Damasco aboute none yt sodenly ther shone fro heaven a greate lyght rounde aboute me
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and I fell vnto the erth and hearde a voyce sayinge vnto me: Saul Saul why persecutest thou me?
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And I answered: what arte thou Lorde? And he sayd vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest.
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And they that were with me sawe verely a lyght and were a frayde: but they hearde not the voyce of him that spake with me.
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And I sayde: what shall I do Lorde? And the Lorde sayde vnto me: Aryse and goo into Damasco and there it shalbe tolde the of all thinges which are apoynted for the to do.
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And when I sawe nothynge for the brightnes of that light I was ledde by the honde of them that were with me and came into Damasco.
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And one Ananias a perfect man and as pertayninge to the lawe havinge good reporte of all the Iewes which there dwelt
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came vnto me and stode and sayd vnto me: Brother Saul loke vp. And that same houre I receaved my sight and sawe him.
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And he sayde the God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before that thou shuldest knowe his will and shuldest se that which is rightfull and shuldest heare the voyce of his mouth:
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for thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men of tho thinges which thou thou hast sene and hearde.