13. came to me, and standing near said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' And at that very time I looked up at him.
14. And he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.
15. For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
16. Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'
17. "It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,
18. and I saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'
19. And I said, 'Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.
20. And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.'
21. And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
22. They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!"
23. And as they were crying out and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,
24. the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.
25. But when they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?"