¹⁰I asked, ‘What am I to do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told everything that has been assigned to you to do.’^* ¹¹Since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, those who were with me took my hand and led me to Damascus.^*

¹²“A certain Ananias, who was a devout man according to the law and well spoken of by all the Jews living there,^* ¹³came to me, and standing beside me, he said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ In that very hour I regained my sight and saw him. ¹⁴Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,^* ¹⁵for you will be his witness to all the world of what you have seen and heard.^* ¹⁶And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’^*

Paul Sent to the Gentiles

¹⁷“After I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance^* ¹⁸and saw Jesus^c saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’ ¹⁹And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.^* ²⁰And while the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing by, approving and keeping the coats of those who killed him.’^* ²¹Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the gentiles.’ ”^*

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Footnotes

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Cross references

*Acts 16:30
*Acts 9:8
*Acts 9:17; 10:22
*Acts 3:13; 5:30; 7:52; 9:15; 1 Cor 9:1; 15:8
*Acts 23:11; 26:16
*Acts 2:38; 9:14; Rom 10:13; Heb 10:22
*Acts 9:26; 10:10
*v 4; Mt 10:17; Acts 8:3
*Lk 11:48; Acts 8:1; Rom 1:32
*Acts 9:15