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Acts 26:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" at 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. "

Acts 26:13

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11 Punishing 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 traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

13 at 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.

14 When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

15 “I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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Acts 26:1

"Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense."

Acts 26:2

"“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,"

Acts 26:3

"especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently."

Acts 26:4

"“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;"

Acts 26:5

"having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."

Acts 26:6

"Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,"

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