Acts 22 — TNT
22Verse 1Ye men brethren and fathers heare myne answere which I make vnto you.Verse 2When they hearde that he spake in the Ebrue tonge to them they kept the moore silence. And he sayde:Verse 3I am verely aman which am a Iewe borne in Tharsus a cite in Cicill: neverthelesse yet brought vp in this cite at the fete of Gamaliel and informed diligently in the lawe of the fathers and was fervent mynded to Godwarde as ye all are this same dayeVerse 4and I persecuted this waye vnto the deeth byndynge and delyveringe into preson bothe men and wemenVerse 5as the chefe prest doth beare me witnes and all the elders: of whom also I receaved letters vnto the brethren and wet to Damasco to bringe them which were there bounde vnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed.Verse 6And it fortuned as I made my iorney and was come nye vnto Damasco aboute none that sodenly ther shone from heaven a greate lyght rounde aboute meVerse 7and I fell vnto the erth and hearde a voyce sayinge vnto me: Saul Saul why persecutest thou me?Verse 8And I answered: what arte thou Lorde? And he sayd vnto me: I am Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest.Verse 9And they that were with me sawe verely a lyght and were a frayde: but they hearde not the voyce of him that spake with me.Verse 10And I sayde: what shall I do Lorde? And the Lorde sayde vnto me: Aryse and goo into Damasco and there it shalbe tolde the of all thinges which are apoynted for the to do.Verse 11And when I sawe nothynge for the brightnes of that light I was ledde by the honde of them that were with me and came into Damasco.Verse 12And one Ananias a perfect man and as pertayninge to the lawe havinge good reporte of all the Iewes which there dweltVerse 13came vnto me and stode and sayd vnto me: Brother Saul loke vp. And that same houre I receaved my sight and sawe him.Verse 14And he sayde the God of oure fathers hath ordeyned the before that thou shuldest knowe his will and shuldest se that which is rightfull and shuldest heare the voyce of his mouth:Verse 15for thou shalt be his witnes vnto all men of tho thinges which thou thou hast sene and hearde.Verse 16And now: why tariest thou? Aryse and be baptised and wesshe awaye thy synnes in callinge on the name of the Lorde.Verse 17And it fortuned when I was come agayne to Ierusalem and prayde in the temple that I was in a trauceVerse 18and sawe him sayinge vnto me. Make haste and get the quickly out of Ierusalem: for they will not receave thy witnes that thou bearest of me.Verse 19And I sayde: Lorde they knowe that I presoned and bet in every synagoge them that beleved on the.Verse 20And when the bloud of thy witnes Steven was sheed I also stode by and consented vnto his deeth and kept the rayment of them that slewe him.Verse 21And he sayde vnto me: departe for I will sende the a farre hence vnto the Gentyls.Verse 22They gave him audience vnto this worde and then lifte vp their voyces and sayde: a waye with soche a felowe from the erth: that is pitie that he shuld live.Verse 23And as they cryed and cast of their clothes and thrue dust into the ayerVerse 24the captayne bade him to be brought into the castle and commaunded him to be scourged and to be examined that he myght knowe wherfore they cryed on him.Verse 25And as they bounde him with thonges Paul sayde vnto the Centurion that stode by: Ys it laufull for you to scourge a man that is a Romain and vncondempned?Verse 26When the Centurion hearde that he went and tolde the vpper captayne sayinge: What intendest thou to do? This man is a Romayne.Verse 27Then the vpper captayne came and sayde to him: tell me art thou a Romayne? He sayde: Yee.Verse 28And the captayne answered: with a greate some obtayned I this fredome. And Paul sayde: I was fre borne.Verse 29Then strayght waye departed from him they which shuld have examyned him. And the hye captayne also was a frayde after he knewe that he was a Romayne: because he had bounde him.Verse 30On the morowe because he wolde have knowen the certayntie wherfore he was accused of the Iewes he lowsed him from his bondes and commaunded the hye Prestes and all the counsell to come together and brought Paul and set him before them.