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Acts 22:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.

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They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

And the Lord said to him, "Go away to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus called Saul. He is praying at this very moment,

But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

Paul said, "I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, the citizen of a famous town. Pray let me speak to the people."

They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

Are they Hebrews? so am I. Israelites? so am I. Descended from Abraham? so am I.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

Then, I ask, has God repudiated his People? Never! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin!

Then, finding half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisees, Paul shouted to them, "I am a Pharisee, brothers, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection from the dead that I am on trial!"

Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

Then I went to the districts of Syria and of Cilicia.

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

On reading the letter he asked what province he belonged to, and finding it was Cilicia

He made his way through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

They conveyed the following letter. "The apostles and the presbyters of the brotherhood to the brothers who belong to the Gentiles throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: greeting.

So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

Three days later they found him in the temple, seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.




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