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For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
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And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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And it came to pass that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a rapture of understanding
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and saw him saying unto me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
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And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and in every synagogue beat those that believed on thee;
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and when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting unto his death and kept the raiment of those that slew him.
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And he said unto me, Depart, for I will send thee far from here unto the Gentiles.
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And they gave him audience unto this word and
then lifted up their voices and said, Away with such a
fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that he should live.
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And as they cried out and cast off
their clothes and threw dust into the air,
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the tribunal commanded him to be brought into the fortress and bade that he should be examined by scourging that he might know why they cried out so against him.
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And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned?