I replied, ‘Who are you, sir?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazorean whom you are persecuting.’
I myself once thought that I had to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean,
The Lord said: Listen to whatever the people say. You are not the one they are rejecting. They are rejecting me as their king.
For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed.
Peter said, “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, [rise and] walk.”
He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’
He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, “He shall be called a Nazorean.”
and he said to the latter, “Run, speak to that official: Jerusalem will be unwalled, because of the abundance of people and beasts in its midst.
As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.
And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’
But Peter said, “Certainly not, sir. For never have I eaten anything profane and unclean.”
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’