These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Acts 22
Brit Hadashah 30 verses
- 1 “Brethren and fathers,” he said, “listen to my defence which I now make before you.”
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And on hearing him address them in Hebrew, they kept all the more quiet; and he said,
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“I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for .
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Acts 9:11 Acts 5:34 Acts 21:39 Acts 26:5 Philippians 3:5-6 Acts 21:20 Luke 10:39 Acts 6:9 2 Corinthians 11:22 Acts 23:6 Romans 11:1 2 Kings 4:38 Deuteronomy 33:3 Luke 2:46 Acts 9:30 Acts 15:41 Galatians 1:14 Acts 23:34 Galatians 1:21 Acts 11:25 Romans 10:2-3 Galatians 4:17-18 2 Samuel 21:2 Acts 15:23 Luke 8:35 - 4 I persecuted to death this new , continually binding both men and women and throwing them into prison;
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as the High Priest also and all the Elders can bear me witness. It was, too, from them that I received letters to the brethren in , and I was already on my way to , intending to bring those also who had fled there, in chains to , to be punished.
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“But on my way, when I was now not far from , about noon a sudden blaze of light from Heaven shone round me.
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- 7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, “’Saul, , why are you persecuting Me?’
- 8 “’Who art thou, Lord?’ I asked. “’I am , the Nazarene,’ He replied, ‘whom you are persecuting.’
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“Now the men who were with me, though they saw the light, did not the words of Him who spoke to me.
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And I asked, “’What am I to do, Lord?’ “And the Lord said to me, “’Rise, and go into . There you shall be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.’
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“And as I could not see because the light had been so dazzling, those who were with me had to lead me by the arm, and so I came to .
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“And a certain Ananias, a pious man who obeyed the Law and bore a good character with all the Jews of the city,
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came to me and standing at my side said, “’Brother , recover your sight.’ “I instantly regained my sight and looked up at him.
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Then he said, ‘The of our forefathers has appointed you to His will, and to see the righteous One and Him speak.
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Acts 26:16 1 Corinthians 9:1 1 Corinthians 15:8 Acts 9:17 Galatians 1:12 Acts 9:15 Acts 7:52 Acts 3:13-14 Acts 22:18 1 Peter 2:22 Exodus 3:13-16 Exodus 15:2 1 Chronicles 12:17 1 Corinthians 11:23 Ezra 7:27 1 John 2:1 Titus 1:1 2 Kings 21:22 2 Timothy 1:1 1 Corinthians 15:3 2 Chronicles 28:25 Acts 24:14 Jeremiah 1:5 1 Chronicles 29:18 2 Chronicles 30:19 Acts 13:17 John 15:16 Romans 1:1 Acts 5:30 Galatians 1:15 Daniel 2:23 2 Corinthians 5:21 -
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For you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you have seen and heard.
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- 16 And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His .’
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“After my return to , and while praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance.
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I saw , and He said to me, “’Make haste and leave quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’
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“’Lord,’ I replied, ‘they themselves well how active I was in imprisoning, and in flogging in after those who believe in Thee;
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and when they were shedding the of Stephen, Thy witness, I was standing by, fully approving of it, and I held the clothes of those who were killing him.’
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- 21 “’Go,’ He replied; ‘I will send you as an Apostle to nations far away.’”
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Until they heard this last statement the people listened to , but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live.”
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And when they continued their furious shouts, throwing their clothes into the air and flinging dust about,
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the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him.
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But, when they had tied him up with the straps, said to the Captain who stood by, “Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen—and one too who is uncondemned?”
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On hearing this question, the Captain went to report the matter to the Tribune. “What are you intending to do?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”
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- 27 So the Tribune came to and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” “Yes,” he said.
- 28 “I paid a large sum for my citizenship,” said the Tribune. “But I was born free,” said .
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So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.
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The next day, wishing to exactly what charge was being brought against him by the Jews, the Tribune ordered his chains to be removed; and, having sent to the High Priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble, he brought down and made him stand before them.
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