DAY 24 FOR A GOAL OF READING THE BOOK OF ACTS IN 30 DAYS

AC-22:12  And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law,

having

a good report of all the Jews which dwelt [there],

AC-22:13  Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother

Saul,

receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

AC-22:14  And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,

that

thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and

shouldest

hear the voice of his mouth.

AC-22:15  For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou

hast seen and heard.

AC-22:16  And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and

wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

AC-22:17  And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to

Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;

AC-22:18  And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee

quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony

concerning me.

AC-22:19  And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat

in

every synagogue them that believed on thee:

AC-22:20  And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I

also

was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the

raiment

of them that slew him.

AC-22:21  And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far

hence unto the Gentiles.

AC-22:22  And they gave him audience unto this word, and [then]

lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a [fellow] from

the

earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

AC-22:23  And as they cried out, and cast off [their] clothes,

and

threw dust into the air,

AC-22:24  The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the

castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he

might know wherefore they cried so against him.

AC-22:25  And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the

centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man

that

is a Roman, and uncondemned?

AC-22:26  When the centurion heard [that], he went and told the

chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man

is a

Roman.

AC-22:27  Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell

me,

art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

AC-22:28  And the chief captain answered, With a great sum

obtained

I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was [free] born.

AC-22:29  Then straightway they departed from him which should

have

examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he

knew

that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

AC-22:30  On the morrow, because he would have known the

certainty

wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from [his]

bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to

appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

*AC-23:1  And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men

[and]

brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until

this

day.

AC-23:2  And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by

him to smite him on the mouth.

AC-23:3  Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, [thou]

whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and

commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

AC-23:4  And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high

priest?

AC-23:5  Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the

high

priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the

ruler of

thy people.

AC-23:6  But when Paul perceived that the one part were

Sadducees,

and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men [and]

brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and

resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

AC-23:7  And when he had so said, there arose a dissension

between

the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

AC-23:8  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection,

neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

AC-23:9  And there arose a great cry: and the scribes [that

were] of

the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in

this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us

not

fight against God.

AC-23:10  And when there arose a great dissension, the chief

captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of

them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force

from among them, and to bring [him] into the castle.

AC-23:11  And the night following the Lord stood by him, and

said,

Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in

Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

AC-23:12  And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded

together,

and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would

neither

eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

AC-23:13  And they were more than forty which had made this

conspiracy. 

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