022:015 For you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you
have seen and heard.
022:016 And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off
your sins, calling upon His name.'
022:017 "After my return to Jerusalem, and while praying in the Temple, I fell
into a trance.
022:018 I saw Jesus, and He said to me, "`Make haste and leave
Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your
testimony about Me.'
022:019 "`Lord,' I replied, `they themselves well know how active I was
in imprisoning, and in flogging in synagogue after synagogue
those who believe in Thee;
022:020 and when they were shedding the blood of Stephen, Thy witness,
I was standing by, fully approving of it, and I held the clothes
of those who were killing him.'
022:021 "`Go,' He replied; `I will send you as an Apostle to nations far away.'"
022:022 Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, 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."
022:023 And when they continued their furious shouts, throwing their clothes into the air and flinging dust about,
022:024 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.