Acts 22:1-13 ▼

1 Men, brethren, & fathers, heare ye mine aunswer whiche I make vnto you.

2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrue tongue to the, they kept ye more scilence. And he saith:)

3 I am verily a man which am a Iewe, borne in Tarsus in Cilicia, and yet brought vp in this citie at ye feete of Gamaliel, and infourmed accordyng to the perfect maner of the lawe of ye fathers, and was zelous towarde God, as ye all are this same day.

4 And I persecuted this way vnto the death, byndyng & delyueryng into prison both men and women,

5 As also the chiefe priest doth beare me witnesse, and all the estate of the elders: of whom also I receaued letters vnto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bryng them whiche were there, bounde vnto Hierusalem for to be punisshed.

6 And it came to passe, that as I made my iourney, & was come nye vnto Damascus, about noone, sodeinly there shone from heauen a great light rounde about me.

7 And I fell vnto the earth, and hearde a voyce saying vnto me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me:

8 And I aunswered: Who art thou Lorde? And he sayde vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest.

9 And they that were with me, sawe veryly a lyght, and were afrayde: but they hearde not the voyce of hym that spake with me.

10 And I saide: What shall I do Lord? And the Lorde sayde vnto me: Aryse, and go into Damascus, & there it shalbe tolde thee of all thynges whiche are appoynted for thee to do.

11 And when I sawe nothyng for the bryghtnesse of the lyght, I was ledde by the hande of the that were with me, and came into Damascus.

12 And one Ananias, a deuout man as perteynyng to the lawe, hauyng a good report of all the Iewes whiche there dwelt,

13 Came vnto me, and stoode, and sayde vnto me: Brother Saul, receaue thy syght. And the same houre I receaued my syght, and sawe hym.