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- "Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense."
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- When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic,
- they became very quiet. Then Paul said:
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- "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city.
- Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers
- and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.
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- I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death,
- arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison,
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- as also the high priest and all the Council can testify.
- I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus,
- and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
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- "About noon as I came near Damascus,
- suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.
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- I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me,
- `Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'
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- "`Who are you, Lord?' I asked. "`I am Jesus of Nazareth,
- whom you are persecuting,' he replied.
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- My companions saw the light, but they did not understand
- the voice of him who was speaking to me.
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- "`What shall I do, Lord?' I asked. "`Get up,' the Lord said, `and go into Damascus.
- There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.'
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- My companions led me by the hand into Damascus,
- because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.
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- "A man named Ananias came to see me.
- He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there.
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- He stood beside me and said, `Brother Saul, receive your sight!'
- And at that very moment I was able to see him.
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- "Then he said: `The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will
- and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.
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- You will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.
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- And now what are you waiting for? Get up,
- be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.'
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- "When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
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- and saw the Lord speaking. `Quick!' he said to me.
- `Leave Jerusalem immediately, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'
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- "`Lord,' I replied, `these men know that I went from one synagogue
- to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.
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- And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed,
- I stood there giving my approval and
- guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.'
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- "Then the Lord said to me, `Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
- Paul the Roman Citizen
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- The crowd listened to Paul until he said this.
- Then they raised their voices and shouted,
- "Rid the earth of him! He's not fit to live!"
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- As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air,
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- the commander ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks.
- He directed that he be flogged and questioned in order to find out
- why the people were shouting at him like this.
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- As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there,
- "Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn't even been found guilty?"
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- When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it.
- "What are you going to do?" he asked. "This man is a Roman citizen."
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- The commander went to Paul and asked, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?"
- "Yes, I am," he answered.
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- Then the commander said, "I had to pay a big price for my citizenship."
- "But I was born a citizen," Paul replied.
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- Those who were about to question him withdrew immediately.
- The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul,
- a Roman citizen, in chains.
- Before the Sanhedrin
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- The next day, since the commander wanted to find out exactly
- why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him
- and ordered the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble.
- Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.
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