New American Bible, Revised Edition

Acts 22:16-21 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

16. Now, why delay? Get up and have yourself baptized and your sins washed away, calling upon his name.’

17. “After I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

18. and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry, leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

19. But I replied, ‘Lord, they themselves know that from synagogue to synagogue I used to imprison and beat those who believed in you.

20. And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I myself stood by giving my approval and keeping guard over the cloaks of his murderers.’

21. Then he said to me, ‘Go, I shall send you far away to the Gentiles.’”