Acts 22:10–21

¹⁰And 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. ¹¹And 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. ¹²And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt there, ¹³coming 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. ¹⁴And he said, The God 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; ¹⁵for thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and heard. ¹⁶And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name. ¹⁷And it came to pass when I had returned to Jerusalem, and as I was praying in the temple, that I became in ecstasy, ¹⁸and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. ¹⁹And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those that believe on thee; ²⁰and 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. ²¹And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.