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Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
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"Whereupon as I journeyed to Dammesek with the authority and commission from the chief Kohanim,
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at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
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When we had all fallen to the eretz, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Sha'ul, Sha'ul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
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"I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Yeshua, whom you persecute.
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But arise, and stand on your feet, for to this end have I appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;
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delivering you from the people, and from the Goyim, to whom I send you,
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to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Hasatan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
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"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
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but declared first to them of Dammesek, at Yerushalayim, and throughout all the country of Yehudah, and also to the Goyim, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
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For this reason the Yehudim seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.