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who knew me before from the outset [of my life], if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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And now I stand to be judged because of the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
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to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of [the] Jews.
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Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?
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*I* indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.
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Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.
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And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out [of our own land].
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And when, [engaged] in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,
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at mid-day, on the way, I saw, O king, a light above the brightness of the sun, shining from heaven round about me and those who were journeying with me.
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And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against goads.
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And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, *I* am Jesus whom *thou* persecutest: