Acts Chapter 22
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asv (asv) - eBible.org engASV USFM
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be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
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And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
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And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
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And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:
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for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.
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And he dwelt
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there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,
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saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
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But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
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but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.
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And he drove them from the judgment-seat.
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And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.
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And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreæ; for he had a vow.
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And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;
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but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.
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And when he had landed at Cæsarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.
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And having spent some time
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there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
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Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures.
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This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John:
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and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.
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And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him: and when he was come, he helped them much that had believed through grace;
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for he powerfully confuted the Jews,
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and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
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And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:
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and he said unto them, Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they
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said unto him, Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was
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given.
darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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Brethren and fathers, hear my defence which I now make to you.
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And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,
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I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the] exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous forGod, as ye are all this day;
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who have persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women;
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as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the elderhood: from whom also, having received letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus to bring those also who were there, bound, to Jerusalem, to be punished.
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And it came to pass, as I was journeying and drawing near to Damascus, that, about mid-day, there suddenly shone out of heaven a great light round about me.
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And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazaraean, whom thou persecutest.
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But they that were with me beheld the light, [and were filled with fear], but heard not the voice of him that was speaking to me.
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And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rise up, and go to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee of all things which it is appointed thee to do.
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And as I could not see, through the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came to Damascus.
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And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt [there],
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coming to me and standing by me, said to me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And I, in the same hour, received my sight and saw him.
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And he said, TheGod of our fathers has chosen thee beforehand to know his will, and to see the just one, and to hear a voice out of his mouth;
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for thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
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And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.
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And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy,
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and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.
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And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee;
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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was shed, I also myself was standing by and consenting, and kept the clothes of them who killed him.
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And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.
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And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a one as that from the earth, for it was not fit he should live.
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And as they were crying, and throwing away their clothes, and casting dust into the air,
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the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, saying that he should be examined by scourging, that he might ascertain for what cause they cried thus against him.
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But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?
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And the centurion, having heard it, went and reported it to the chiliarch, saying, What art thou going to do? for this man is a Roman.
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And the chiliarch coming up said to him, Tell me, Art thou a Roman? And he said, Yes.
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And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also [free] born.
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Immediately therefore those who were going to examine him left him, and the chiliarch also was afraid when he ascertained that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty [of the matter] why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Viri fratres, et patres, audite quam ad vos nunc reddo rationem.
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Cum audissent autem quia Hebræa lingua loqueretur ad illos, magis præstiterunt silentium.
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Et dicit: Ego sum vir Iudæus, natus in Tarso Ciliciæ, nutritus autem in ista civitate, secus pedes Gamaliel eruditus iuxta veritatem paternæ legis, æmulator legis, sicut et vos omnes estis hodie:
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qui hanc viam persecutus sum usque ad mortem, alligans et tradens in custodias viros ac mulieres,
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sicut princeps sacerdotum mihi testimonium reddit, et omnes maiores natu, a quibus et epistolas accipiens ad fratres Damascum pergebam, ut adducerem inde vinctos in Ierusalem ut punirentur.
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Factum est autem, eunte me, et appropinquante Damasco media die, subito de cælo circumfulsit me lux copiosa:
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et decidens in terram, audivi vocem dicentem mihi: Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris?
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Ego autem respondi: Quis es Domine? Dixitque ad me: Ego sum Iesus Nazarenus, quem tu persequeris.
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Et qui mecum erant, lumen quidem viderunt, vocem autem non audierunt eius, qui loquebatur mecum.
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Et dixi: Quid faciam, Domine? Dominus autem dixit ad me: Surgens vade Damascum: et ibi tibi dicetur de omnibus, quæ te oporteat facere.
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Et cum non viderem præ claritate luminis illius, ad manum deductus a comitibus, veni Damascum.
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Ananias autem quidam, vir secundum legem testimonium habens ab omnibus cohabitantibus Iudæis,
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veniens ad me, et astans dixit mihi: Saule frater respice. Et ego eadem hora respexi in eum.
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At ille dixit: Deus patrum nostrorum præordinavit te, ut cognosceres voluntatem eius, et videres iustum, et audires vocem ex ore eius:
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quia eris testis illius ad omnes homines eorum, quæ vidisti, et audisti.
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Et nunc quid moraris? Exurge, et baptizare, et ablue peccata tua invocato nomine ipsius.
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Factum est autem revertenti mihi in Ierusalem, et oranti in templo, fieri me in stupore mentis,
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et videre illum dicentem mihi: Festina, et exi velociter ex Ierusalem: quoniam non recipient testimonium tuum de me.
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Et ego dixi: Domine ipsi sciunt quia ego eram concludens in carcerem, et cædans per synagogas eos, qui credebant in te:
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et cum funderetur sanguis Stephani testis tui, ego astabam, et consentiebam, et custodiebam vestimenta interficientium illum.
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Et dixit ad me: Vade quoniam ego in nationes longe mittam te.
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Audiebant autem eum usque ad hoc verbum, et levaverunt vocem suam dicentes: Tolle de terra huiusmodi: non enim fas est eum vivere.
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Vociferantibus autem eis, et proiicientibus vestimenta sua, et pulverem iactantibus in aerem,
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iussit tribunus induci eum in castra, et flagellis cædi, et torqueri eum, ut sciret propter quam causam sic acclamarent ei.
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Et cum astrinxissent eum loris, dicit astanti sibi Centurioni Paulus: Si hominem Romanum, et indemnatum licet vobis flagellare?
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Quo audito, Centurio accessit ad tribunum, et nunciavit ei, dicens: Quid acturus es? hic enim homo civis Romanus est.
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Accedens autem tribunus, dixit illi: Dic mihi si tu Romanus es? At ille dixit: Etiam.
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Et respondit tribunus: Ego multa summa civilitatem hanc consecutus sum. Et Paulus ait: Ego autem et natus sum.
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Protinus ergo discesserunt ab illo, qui eum torturi erant. Tribunus quoque timuit postquam rescivit, quia civis Romanus esset, et quia alligasset eum.
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Postera autem die volens scire diligentius qua ex causa accusaretur a Iudæis, solvit eum, et iussit sacerdotes convenire, et omne concilium, et producens Paulum, statuit inter illos.
web (web) - WorldEnglish.Bible — CC0 modern update of ASV
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“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”
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When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
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“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.
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I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,
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as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
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“As I made my journey and came close to Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.
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I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
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I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’
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“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
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I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’
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When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
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“One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
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came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.
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He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
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For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
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Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
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“When I had returned to Jerusalem and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance
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and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’
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I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
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“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’ ”
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They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
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As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
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the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
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When they had tied him up with straps, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
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When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
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The commanding officer came and asked him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said, “Yes.”
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The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”
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Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
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But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
wh1881 (wh1881) - Westcott-Hort Greek NT 1881 eBible USFM
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ανδρες αδελφοι και πατερες ακουσατε μου της προς υμας νυνι απολογιας
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ακουσαντες δε οτι τη εβραιδι διαλεκτω προσεφωνει αυτοις μαλλον παρεσχον ησυχιαν και φησιν
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εγω ειμι ανηρ ιουδαιος γεγεννημενος εν ταρσω της κιλικιας ανατεθραμμενος δε εν τη πολει ταυτη παρα τους ποδας γαμαλιηλ πεπαιδευμενος κατα ακριβειαν του πατρωου νομου ζηλωτης υπαρχων του θεου καθως παντες υμεις εστε σημερον
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ος ταυτην την οδον εδιωξα αχρι θανατου δεσμευων και παραδιδους εις φυλακας ανδρας τε και γυναικας
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ως και ο αρχιερευς μαρτυρει μοι και παν το πρεσβυτεριον παρ ων και επιστολας δεξαμενος προς τους αδελφους εις δαμασκον επορευομην αξων και τους εκεισε οντας δεδεμενους εις ιερουσαλημ ινα τιμωρηθωσιν
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εγενετο δε μοι πορευομενω και εγγιζοντι τη δαμασκω περι μεσημβριαν εξαιφνης εκ του ουρανου περιαστραψαι φως ικανον περι εμε
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επεσα τε εις το εδαφος και ηκουσα φωνης λεγουσης μοι σαουλ σαουλ τι με διωκεις
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εγω δε απεκριθην τις ει κυριε ειπεν τε προς εμε εγω ειμι ιησους ο ναζωραιος ον συ διωκεις
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οι δε συν εμοι οντες το μεν φως εθεασαντο την δε φωνην ουκ ηκουσαν του λαλουντος μοι
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ειπον δε τι ποιησω κυριε ο δε κυριος ειπεν προς με αναστας πορευου εις δαμασκον κακει σοι λαληθησεται περι παντων ων τετακται σοι ποιησαι
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ως δε ουκ ενεβλεπον απο της δοξης του φωτος εκεινου χειραγωγουμενος υπο των συνοντων μοι ηλθον εις δαμασκον
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ανανιας δε τις ανηρ ευλαβης κατα τον νομον μαρτυρουμενος υπο παντων των κατοικουντων ιουδαιων
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ελθων προς εμε και επιστας ειπεν μοι σαουλ αδελφε αναβλεψον καγω αυτη τη ωρα ανεβλεψα εις αυτον
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ο δε ειπεν ο θεος των πατερων ημων προεχειρισατο σε γνωναι το θελημα αυτου και ιδειν τον δικαιον και ακουσαι φωνην εκ του στοματος αυτου
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οτι εση μαρτυς αυτω προς παντας ανθρωπους ων εωρακας και ηκουσας
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και νυν τι μελλεις αναστας βαπτισαι και απολουσαι τας αμαρτιας σου επικαλεσαμενος το ονομα αυτου
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εγενετο δε μοι υποστρεψαντι εις ιερουσαλημ και προσευχομενου μου εν τω ιερω γενεσθαι με εν εκστασει
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και ιδειν αυτον λεγοντα μοι σπευσον και εξελθε εν ταχει εξ ιερουσαλημ διοτι ου παραδεξονται σου μαρτυριαν περι εμου
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καγω ειπον κυριε αυτοι επιστανται οτι εγω ημην φυλακιζων και δερων κατα τας συναγωγας τους πιστευοντας επι σε
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και οτε εξεχυννετο το αιμα στεφανου του μαρτυρος σου και αυτος ημην εφεστως και συνευδοκων και φυλασσων τα ιματια των αναιρουντων αυτον
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και ειπεν προς με πορευου οτι εγω εις εθνη μακραν εξαποστελω σε
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ηκουον δε αυτου αχρι τουτου του λογου και επηραν την φωνην αυτων λεγοντες αιρε απο της γης τον τοιουτον ου γαρ καθηκεν αυτον ζην
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κραυγαζοντων τε αυτων και ριπτουντων τα ιματια και κονιορτον βαλλοντων εις τον αερα
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εκελευσεν ο χιλιαρχος εισαγεσθαι αυτον εις την παρεμβολην ειπας μαστιξιν ανεταζεσθαι αυτον ινα επιγνω δι ην αιτιαν ουτως επεφωνουν αυτω
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ως δε προετειναν αυτον τοις ιμασιν ειπεν προς τον εστωτα εκατονταρχον ο παυλος ει ανθρωπον ρωμαιον και ακατακριτον εξεστιν υμιν μαστιζειν
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ακουσας δε ο εκατονταρχης προσελθων τω χιλιαρχω απηγγειλεν λεγων τι μελλεις ποιειν ο γαρ ανθρωπος ουτος ρωμαιος εστιν
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προσελθων δε ο χιλιαρχος ειπεν αυτω λεγε μοι συ ρωμαιος ει ο δε εφη ναι
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απεκριθη δε ο χιλιαρχος εγω πολλου κεφαλαιου την πολιτειαν ταυτην εκτησαμην ο δε παυλος εφη εγω δε και γεγεννημαι
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ευθεως ουν απεστησαν απ αυτου οι μελλοντες αυτον ανεταζειν και ο χιλιαρχος δε εφοβηθη επιγνους οτι ρωμαιος εστιν και οτι αυτον ην δεδεκως
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τη δε επαυριον βουλομενος γνωναι το ασφαλες το τι κατηγορειται υπο των ιουδαιων ελυσεν αυτον και εκελευσεν συνελθειν τους αρχιερεις και παν το συνεδριον και καταγαγων τον παυλον εστησεν εις αυτους
ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8
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`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --
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and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --
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`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.
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`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,
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as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,
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and it came to pass, in my going on and coming nigh to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me,
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I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?
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`And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom thou dost persecute--
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and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me--
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and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do.
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`And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,
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and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling <FI>there<Fi> ,
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having come unto me and stood by <FI>me<Fi> , said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him;
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and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,
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because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;
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and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
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`And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance,
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and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;
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and I said, Lord, they--they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;
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and when the blood of thy witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death;
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and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'
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And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'
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And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,
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the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, saying, `By scourges let him be examined;' that he might know for what cause they were crying so against him.
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And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, `A man, a Roman, uncondemned--is it lawful to you to scourge;'
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and the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, `Take heed what thou art about to do, for this man is a Roman;'
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and the chief captain having come near, said to him, `Tell me, art thou a Roman?' and he said, `Yes;'
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and the chief captain answered, `I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;' but Paul said, `But I have been even born <FI>so<Fi> .'
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Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,
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and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set <FI>him<Fi> before them.
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Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.
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Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).