Acts 9 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ But Sha’ul, still breathing threats and murder against the taught ones of the Master, having come to the high priest,

² asked from him letters to the congregations of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, to bring them bound to Yerushalayim.

³ And it came to be, that as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light flashed around him from the heaven.

⁴ And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me?”

⁵ And he said, “Who are You, Master?” And the Master said, “I am יהושע, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the prods.”

⁶ Both trembling, and being astonished, he said, “Master, what do You wish me to do?” And the Master said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you shall be told what you have to do.”

⁷ And the men journeying with him stood speechless, hearing indeed the voice but seeing no one.

⁸ And Sha’ul arose from the ground, but when his eyes were opened he saw no one. And leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus.

⁹ And he was three days without sight, and did not eat nor drink.

¹⁰ And there was at Damascus a certain taught one, by name Ḥ

¹¹ And the Master said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Yehuḏ

¹² and has seen in a vision a man named Ḥ

¹³ And Ḥ

¹⁴ and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all those calling on Your Name.”

¹⁵ But the Master said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My Name before nations, sovereigns, and the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁶ “For I shall show him how much he has to suffer for My Name.”

¹⁷ And Ḥ

¹⁸ And immediately there fell from his eyes, as it were scales, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was immersed.

¹⁹ And having received food, he was strengthened. And Sha’ul was with the taught ones at Damascus some days.

²⁰ And immediately he proclaimed the Messiah in the congregations, that He is the Son of Elohim.

²¹ And all who heard were amazed, and said, “Is this not he who destroyed those calling on this Name in Yerushalayim, and has come here for this, to take them bound to the chief priests?”

²² But Sha’ul kept increasing in strength, and was confounding the Yehuḏ

²³ And after many days had elapsed, the Yehuḏ

²⁴ But their plot became known to Sha’ul. And they were watching the gates day and night, to kill him.

²⁵ But taking him by night, the taught ones let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

²⁶ And having arrived at Yerushalayim, Sha’ul tried to join the taught ones, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a taught one.

²⁷ But Barnaḇ

²⁸ And he was with them at Yerushalayim, coming in and going out,

²⁹ and speaking boldly in the Name of the Master יהושע  and disputed with the Hellenists, but they undertook to kill him.

³⁰ And when the brothers learned of this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsos.

³¹ Then indeed the assemblies throughout all Yehuḏ

³² And it came to be, as Kĕ

³³ And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, being paralytic.

³⁴ And Kĕ

³⁵ And all those dwelling at Lod and Sharon saw him and did turn to the Master.

³⁶ And in Yapho there was a certain taught one named Taḇ

³⁷ And it came to be in those days that she became sick and died. And having washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

³⁸ And Lod being near to Yapho, and the taught ones having heard that Kĕ

³⁹ And having risen up, Kĕ

⁴⁰ But Kĕ

⁴¹ And giving her his hand, he lifted her up. And calling the set-apart ones and widows, he presented her alive.

⁴² And it became known throughout all Yapho, and many believed on the Master.

⁴³ And it came to be that he stayed for many days in Yapho with Shimʽ