English Bible Presentation Sharing - Acts Book, chapter 22, verse 1 in Litv Version

Acts 22 : 1 (LITV)

Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.

Acts 22 : 2 (LITV)

And hearing that he spoke in the Hebrew dialect to them, they showed more quietness. And he said:

Acts 22 : 3 (LITV)

Indeed I am a man, a Jew having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been trained according to the exactness of the ancestral law, being a zealous one of God, even as you all are today.

Acts 22 : 4 (LITV)

I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering up both men and women to prisons,

Acts 22 : 5 (LITV)

as also the high priest and all the elderhood witnesses to me. And receiving letters from them to the brothers, I traveled into Damascus even to lead those to Jerusalem being bound there, in order that they might be punished.

Acts 22 : 6 (LITV)

And it happened to me, traveling and drawing near to Damascus: suddenly, about midday, a great light out of the heaven shone around me.

Acts 22 : 7 (LITV)

And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

Acts 22 : 8 (LITV)

And I answered, Who are you, Sir? And He said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you persecute.

Acts 22 : 9 (LITV)

But those being with me indeed saw the light, and were alarmed, but did not hear His voice speaking to me.

Acts 22 : 10 (LITV)

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Rising up, go into Damascus, and there you will be told about all things which are appointed to you to do.

Acts 22 : 11 (LITV)

And as I did not see, from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those being with me, I went into Damascus.

Acts 22 : 12 (LITV)

And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, having been testified to by all the Jews living there,

Acts 22 : 13 (LITV)

coming to me and standing by, he said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And in the same hour I looked up on him.

Acts 22 : 14 (LITV)

And he said, The God of our fathers appointed you to know His will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth;

Acts 22 : 15 (LITV)

for you shall be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 22 : 16 (LITV)

And now what do you intend? Rising up, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Acts 22 : 17 (LITV)

And it happened to me, returning to Jerusalem and praying in the temple: I became in an ecstasy,

Acts 22 : 18 (LITV)

and I saw Him saying to me, Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me.

Acts 22 : 19 (LITV)

And I said, Lord, they understand that I was imprisoning and beating the ones believing on You throughout the synagogues.

Acts 22 : 20 (LITV)

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was poured out, I myself also was standing by and consenting to his execution, and holding the garments of those killing him.

Acts 22 : 21 (LITV)

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you to the nations afar off.

Acts 22 : 22 (LITV)

And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth, for it is not fitting that he should live!

Acts 22 : 23 (LITV)

And they shouting, and tearing the garments, and throwing dust into the air,

Acts 22 : 24 (LITV)

the chiliarch ordered to bring him into the fortress, saying for him to be examined with scourges, that he may know for what crime they cried out so against him.

Acts 22 : 25 (LITV)

But as they stretched him with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing by, Is it lawful for you to flog a man, a Roman not found guilty?

Acts 22 : 26 (LITV)

And hearing, coming near the centurion reported to the chiliarch, saying, Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman.

Acts 22 : 27 (LITV)

And coming up, the chiliarch said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes.

Acts 22 : 28 (LITV)

And the chiliarch answered, I bought this citizenship with a great sum. And Paul said, But I even was born free.

Acts 22 : 29 (LITV)

Then at once those being about to examine him stood away from him. And the chiliarch also feared, fully knowing that he was a Roman, and that he had bound him.

Acts 22 : 30 (LITV)

And on the morrow, desiring to know the certainty as to why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds. And he commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrin to come. And having brought Paul down, he set him among them.