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Acts 22:4

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

In my persecution of this Cause I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike--

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This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, calling: "These men are servants of the most high God, and they are bringing you news of a way to Salvation."

This man began to speak out fearlessly in the Synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the Cause of God to him more carefully still.

Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the Cause.

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the Cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

And began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

All who heard him were amazed. "Is not this," they asked, "the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this Name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the Chief Priests?"

For I am the meanest of the Apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of 'Apostle,' because I persecuted the Church of God.

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned.




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