Peshitta New Testament

Peshitta New Testament — Murdock — Section 85

tribes hope to come, with earnest prayers by day and b}^ night: and for this same hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews. (8) How 8 judge 3'e? Are we not to believe, that God will raise the dead? — (9.) For I myself, at first, re- 9 solved in my own mind, that I, would perpetrate many adverse things against the name of Jesus the Nazarean. (10) Wliich I also did at Jerusa- 10 lem; and by the authority I received from the chief priests, I cast many of the saints'^ into prison ; and when they were put to death by them, I took part with those that condemned them. (11) And 11 in every synagogue I tortured them, while I press- ed them to become revilers of the name of Jesus. And in the great wrath, with which I was filled against them, I also went to other cities to perse- cute them. (12) And, as I was going for this 12 purpose to Damascus, with the authority and li- cense of the chief priests, (13) at mid-day, on the 13 road, I saw, O kins;, a Wuht exceeding that of the sun, beaming from heaven upon me, and upon all those with me. (14) And we all fell to the ground; 1-1 and I. heard a voice, which said to me, in Hebrew: Saul, Saul ! why persecutest thou me ? It will be a hard thing for thee to kick against the goads. (15) And I said: My Lord, who art thou? And 15 our Lord said to me : I am Jesus the Nazarean, whom thou persecutest. (10) And he said to mc : IG Stand upon thy feet ; for I have appeared to thee, for this purpose, to constitute thee a minister and a witness of this thy seeing me, and of thy seeing me hereafter. (17) And I will deliver thee from 17 the people of the Jews, and from other nations ; to whom I send thee, (18) to open their eyes; that 18 they may turn from darkness to the light, and from the dominion of Satan unto God ; and may receive remission of sins, and a portion with the saints,^ by fiiith in me. (19) Wherefore, king 19 Agrippa, I did not contumaciously withstand the heavenly vision : (20) but I preached from the first 20 to them in Damascus, and to them in Jerusalem and in all the villages of Judcca; and I preached also to the Gentiles, that they should repent, and should turn to God, and should do the works suitable to repentance. (21) And on account of 21 these things, the Jews seized me in the temple, and