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I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against
them.
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And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled
them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
them even unto foreign cities.
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Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the princes of the priests,
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at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute.
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But rise and stand upon thy feet, for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in which I will appear unto thee;
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delivering thee from the people and
from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee
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to open their eyes
and to turn
them from darkness to light and
from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.
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Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision,