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And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,
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and saw him saying to 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 themselves know that *I* was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;
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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.
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And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the nations afar off.
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And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.
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And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air,
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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.
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But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?
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And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this man is a Roman.
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And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art *thou* a Roman? And he said, Yes.