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Acts 9:2

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and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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And he divided his men against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.

The oracle concerning Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city And will become a fallen ruin.

¶Concerning Damascus. “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, For they have heard a bad report; They are melting away. There is anxiety by the sea, It cannot be quieted.

But beware of men, for they will deliver you over to the courts and flog you in their synagogues;

Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

Now about that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.

But when some were becoming hardened and were not believing, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he left them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

But Felix, having a more accurate knowledge about the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.

“While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and some from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and were arguing with Stephen.

It was he who deceitfully took advantage of our family and mistreated our fathers to set their infants outside so that they would not survive.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

And all those hearing him continued to be astounded, and were saying, “Is this not the one who in Jerusalem destroyed those that called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.




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