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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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