And a great cry was made. And some of the Pharisees rose up, and fought, saying, We find nothing of evil in this man; what if a spirit, either an angel, spake to him?
And scribes and Pharisees seeing, that he ate with publicans and sinful men, said to his disciples, Why eateth and drinketh your master with publicans and sinners?
And the third time he said to them, For what evil hath he done? I find no cause of death in him; there-fore I shall chastise him, and [I] shall deliver him.
Therefore if God gave to them the same grace, as to us that believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that might forbid the Lord, that he give not the Holy Ghost [or that he should not give the Holy Ghost] to them that believed in the name of Jesus Christ?
And I felled down to the earth, and heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, Saul, Saul, what persecutest [or pursuest] thou me? It is hard to [or for] thee, to kick against the prick.
And he said to them, The Lord is witness against you, and his christ, or his anointed, or king, is witness in this day; for ye have not found any-thing in mine hand. And they said, He is witness.