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New Living Translation (NLT)

Acts 22
⁹ The people with me saw the light but didn’t understand the voice speaking to me.
¹⁰ “I asked, ‘What should I do, Lord?’ “And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything you are to do.’
¹¹ “I was blinded by the intense light and had to be led by the hand to Damascus by my companions.
¹² A man named Ananias lived there. He was a godly man, deeply devoted to the law, and well regarded by all the Jews of Damascus.
¹³ He came and stood beside me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And that very moment I could see him!
¹⁴ “Then he told me, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and hear him speak.
¹⁵ For you are to be his witness, telling everyone what you have seen and heard.
¹⁶ What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’
¹⁷ “After I returned to Jerusalem, I was praying in the Temple and fell into a trance.
¹⁸ I saw a vision of Jesus saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem, for the people here won’t accept your testimony about me.’
¹⁹ “‘But Lord,’ I argued, ‘they certainly know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.