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Ye men brethre and fathers heare myne answere which I make vnto you.
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Whe they hearde that he spake in ye Ebrue tonge to them they kept the moore silence. And he sayde:
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I am verely aman which am a Iewe borne in Tharsus a cite in Cicill: neverthelesse yet brought vp in this cite at ye fete of Gamaliel and informed diligently in the lawe of the fathers and was fervent mynded to Godwarde as ye all are this same daye
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and I persecuted this waye vnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringe into preson bothe men and wemen
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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