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Men, brethren and fathers, hear ye the account which I now give unto you.
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(And when they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more silence.)
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And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day:
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Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
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As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.
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And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light:
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And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
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And they that were with me saw indeed the light: but they heard not the voice of him that spoke with me.
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And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me: Arise and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things that thou must do.