13 came to me, and standing by me said to me, `Brother Saul, receive your sight!` In that very hour I looked up at him.
14 He said, `The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
15 For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.
16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.`
17 It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
18 and saw him saying to me, `Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.`
19 I said, `Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
