Tree Of Life Version

Acts 26:5-16 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

5. They have known about me for a long time—if they were willing to testify—that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

6. “Yet now I stand here being judged for the hope in the promise made by God to our fathers.

7. It is the promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jewish people, O King!

8. Why is it judged incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

9. “In fact, I myself thought it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Yeshua ha-Natzrati.

10. And that is what I did in Jerusalem. Not only did I lock up many of the kedoshim in prisons by the authority I received from the ruling kohanim, but I cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death.

11. I tried to cause them to blaspheme by punishing them often in the synagogues. In furious rage against them, I persecuted them even in foreign cities.

12. “While journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the ruling kohanim,

13. at midday, O King, I saw on the road a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.

14. When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against goads!’

15. “Then I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “And the Lord said, ‘I am Yeshua—whom you are persecuting.

16. But get up, and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose—to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things you have seen as well as to the things I will yet reveal to you.