7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
9"I most assuredly thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
13at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
