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<bible version='kjv' description='The King James Bible with Strongs Numbers' language='ENG' strongs='true'>
  <book number='44' name='' abbreviation='Apg' testament='new'>
    <chapter number='22'>
      <verse number='1'><strongs number="435">Men</strongs>, <strongs number="80">brethren</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3962">fathers</strongs>, <strongs number="191">hear</strongs>ye <strongs number="3450">my</strongs><strongs number="627">defense</strongs><em> which </em><em> I </em><em> make </em><strongs number="3568">now</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="5209">you</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='2'>( <strongs number="1161">And</strongs>when they <strongs number="191">heard</strongs><strongs number="3754">that</strongs>he <strongs number="4377">spake</strongs>in <strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1446">Hebrew</strongs><strongs number="1258">tongue</strongs>to <strongs number="846">them</strongs>, they <strongs number="3930">kept</strongs>the <strongs number="3123">more</strongs><strongs number="2271">silence</strongs>: <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>he <strongs number="5346">saith</strongs>,) </verse>
      <verse number='3'><strongs number="1473">I</strongs><strongs number="1510">am</strongs><strongs number="3303">verily</strongs>a <strongs number="435">man</strongs><em> which </em><em> am </em>a <strongs number="2453">Jew</strongs>, <strongs number="1080">born</strongs><strongs number="1722">in</strongs><strongs number="5019">Tarsus</strongs>, <em> a </em><em> city </em>in <strongs number="2791">Cilicia</strongs>, <strongs number="1161">yet</strongs>brought <strongs number="397">up</strongs><strongs number="1722">in</strongs><strongs number="5026">this</strongs><strongs number="4172">city</strongs><strongs number="3844">at</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="4228">feet</strongs>of <strongs number="1059">Gamaliel</strongs>, <em> and </em><strongs number="3811">taught</strongs><strongs number="2596">according</strongs>to the perfect <strongs number="195">manner</strongs>of the <strongs number="3551">law</strongs>of <strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="3971">fathers</strongs>, and <strongs number="5225">was</strongs><strongs number="2207">zealous</strongs>toward <strongs number="2316">God</strongs>, <strongs number="2531">as</strongs><strongs number="5210">ye</strongs><strongs number="3956">all</strongs><strongs number="2075">are</strongs>this <strongs number="4594">day</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='4'>And <strongs number="*3739">I</strongs><strongs number="1377">persecuted</strongs><strongs number="5026">this</strongs><strongs number="3598">way</strongs><strongs number="891">unto</strongs>the <strongs number="2288">death</strongs>, <strongs number="1195">binding</strongs><strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3860">delivering</strongs><strongs number="1519">into</strongs><strongs number="5438">prisons</strongs><strongs number="5037">both</strongs><strongs number="435">men</strongs><strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="1135">women</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='5'><strongs number="5613">As</strongs><strongs number="2532">also</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>high <strongs number="749">priest</strongs>doth bear me <strongs number="3140 3427">witness</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3956">all</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>estate of the <strongs number="4244">elders</strongs>: <strongs number="3844">from</strongs><strongs number="3739">whom</strongs><strongs number="2532">also</strongs>I <strongs number="1209">received</strongs><strongs number="1992">letters</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="80">brethren</strongs>, and <strongs number="4198">went</strongs><strongs number="1519">to</strongs><strongs number="1154">Damascus</strongs>, to <strongs number="71">bring</strongs>them which <strongs number="5607">were</strongs><strongs number="1566">there</strongs><strongs number="1210">bound</strongs><strongs number="1519">unto</strongs><strongs number="2419">Jerusalem</strongs>, for <strongs number="2443">to</strongs>be <strongs number="5097">punished</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='6'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>it came to <strongs number="1096">pass</strongs>, that, as <strongs number="3427">I</strongs>made my <strongs number="4198">journey</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>was come <strongs number="1448">nigh</strongs>unto <strongs number="1154">Damascus</strongs><strongs number="4012">about</strongs><strongs number="3314">noon</strongs>, <strongs number="1810">suddenly</strongs>there <strongs number="4015">shone</strongs><strongs number="1537">from</strongs><strongs number="3772">heaven</strongs>a <strongs number="2425">great</strongs><strongs number="5457">light</strongs>round <strongs number="4012">about</strongs><strongs number="1691">me</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='7'><strongs number="5037">And</strongs>I <strongs number="4098">fell</strongs><strongs number="1519">unto</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1475">ground</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="191">heard</strongs>a <strongs number="5456">voice</strongs><strongs number="3004">saying</strongs>unto <strongs number="3427">me</strongs>, <em><strongs number="4549">Saul</strongs>, </em><em><strongs number="4549">Saul</strongs>, </em><em><strongs number="5101">why</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1377">persecutest</strongs></em><em> thou </em><em><strongs number="3165">me</strongs>? </em></verse>
      <verse number='8'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="1473">I</strongs><strongs number="611">answered</strongs>, <strongs number="5101">Who</strongs><strongs number="1488">art</strongs>thou, <strongs number="2962">Lord</strongs>? <strongs number="5037">And</strongs>he <strongs number="2036">said</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3165">me</strongs>, <em><strongs number="1473">I</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1510">am</strongs></em><em><strongs number="2424">Jesus</strongs></em><em> of </em><em><strongs number="3480">Nazareth</strongs>, </em><em><strongs number="3739">whom</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4771">thou</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1377">persecutest</strongs>. </em></verse>
      <verse number='9'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>they that <strongs number="5607">were</strongs><strongs number="4862">with</strongs><strongs number="1698">me</strongs><strongs number="2300">saw</strongs><strongs number="3303">indeed</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="5457">light</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="1096">were</strongs><strongs number="1719">afraid</strongs>; <strongs number="1161">but</strongs>they <strongs number="191">heard</strongs><strongs number="3756">not</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="5456">voice</strongs>of him that <strongs number="2980">spake</strongs>to <strongs number="3427">me</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='10'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>I <strongs number="2036">said</strongs>, <strongs number="5101">What</strongs>shall I <strongs number="4160">do</strongs>, <strongs number="2962">Lord</strongs>? <strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2962">Lord</strongs><strongs number="2036">said</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3165">me</strongs>, <em><strongs number="450">Arise</strongs>, </em><em> and </em><em><strongs number="4198">go</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1519">into</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1154">Damascus</strongs>; </em><em> and <strongs number="2546">there</strongs></em><em> it </em><em> shall </em><em> be </em><em><strongs number="2980">told</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4671">thee</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4012">of</strongs></em><em> all <strongs number="3956">things</strongs></em><em><strongs number="3739">which</strongs></em><em> are </em><em><strongs number="5021">appointed</strongs></em><em> for </em><em><strongs number="4671">thee</strongs></em><em> to </em><em><strongs number="4160">do</strongs>. </em></verse>
      <verse number='11'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="5613">when</strongs>I could <strongs number="3756">not</strongs><strongs number="1689">see</strongs><strongs number="575">for</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1391">glory</strongs>of <strongs number="1565">that</strongs><strongs number="5457">light</strongs>, being led by the <strongs number="5496">hand</strongs><strongs number="5259">of</strongs>them that were <strongs number="4895">with</strongs><strongs number="3427">me</strongs>, I <strongs number="2064">came</strongs><strongs number="1519">into</strongs><strongs number="1154">Damascus</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='12'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="5100">one</strongs><strongs number="367">Ananias</strongs>, a <strongs number="2152">devout</strongs><strongs number="435">man</strongs><strongs number="2596">according</strongs>to <strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="3551">law</strongs>, having a good <strongs number="3140">report</strongs><strongs number="5259">of</strongs><strongs number="3956">all</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2453">Jews</strongs>which <strongs number="2730">dwelt</strongs><em> there, </em></verse>
      <verse number='13'><strongs number="2064">Came</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3165">me</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="2186">stood</strongs>, and <strongs number="2036">said</strongs>unto <strongs number="3427">me</strongs>, <strongs number="80">Brother</strongs><strongs number="4549">Saul</strongs>, receive thy <strongs number="308">sight</strongs>. And <strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="846">same</strongs><strongs number="5610">hour</strongs><strongs number="2504">I</strongs>looked <strongs number="308">up</strongs><strongs number="1519">upon</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='14'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="3588">he</strongs><strongs number="2036">said</strongs>, <strongs number="3588">The</strongs><strongs number="2316">God</strongs>of <strongs number="2257">our</strongs><strongs number="3962">fathers</strongs>hath <strongs number="4400">chosen</strongs><strongs number="4571">thee</strongs>, that thou shouldest <strongs number="1097">know</strongs><strongs number="848">his</strongs><strongs number="2307">will</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="1492">see</strongs>that Just <strongs number="1342">One</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>shouldest <strongs number="191">hear</strongs>the <strongs number="5456">voice</strongs><strongs number="1537">of</strongs><strongs number="848">his</strongs><strongs number="4750">mouth</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='15'><strongs number="3754">For</strongs>thou shalt <strongs number="2071">be</strongs><strongs number="846">his</strongs><strongs number="3144">witness</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3956">all</strongs><strongs number="444">men</strongs>of <strongs number="3739">what</strongs>thou hast <strongs number="3708">seen</strongs><strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="191">heard</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='16'><strongs number="2532">And</strongs><strongs number="3568">now</strongs><strongs number="5101">why</strongs><strongs number="3195">tarriest</strongs>thou? <strongs number="450">arise</strongs>, and be <strongs number="907">baptized</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>wash <strongs number="628">away</strongs><strongs number="4675">thy</strongs><strongs number="266">sins</strongs>, calling <strongs number="1941">on</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="3686">name</strongs>of <strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2962">Lord</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='17'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>it came to <strongs number="1096">pass</strongs>, that, when <strongs number="3427">I</strongs>was come <strongs number="5290">again</strongs><strongs number="1519">to</strongs><strongs number="2419">Jerusalem</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">even</strongs>while <strongs number="3450">I</strongs><strongs number="4336">prayed</strongs><strongs number="1722">in</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2411">temple</strongs>, <strongs number="3165">I</strongs><strongs number="1096">was</strongs><strongs number="1722">in</strongs>a <strongs number="1611">trance</strongs>; </verse>
      <verse number='18'><strongs number="2532">And</strongs><strongs number="1492">saw</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs><strongs number="3004">saying</strongs>unto <strongs number="3427">me</strongs>, <em> Make <strongs number="4692">haste</strongs>, </em><em><strongs number="2532">and</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1831">get</strongs></em><em> thee </em><em><strongs number="1722 5034">quickly</strongs></em><em> out <strongs number="1537">of</strongs></em><em><strongs number="2419">Jerusalem</strongs>: </em><em><strongs number="1360">for</strongs></em><em> they </em><em> will </em><em><strongs number="3756">not</strongs></em><em><strongs number="3858">receive</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4675">thy</strongs></em><em><strongs number="3141">testimony</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4012">concerning</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1700">me</strongs>. </em></verse>
      <verse number='19'>And <strongs number="2504">I</strongs><strongs number="2036">said</strongs>, <strongs number="2962">Lord</strongs>, <strongs number="846">they</strongs><strongs number="1987">know</strongs><strongs number="3754">that</strongs><strongs number="1473">I</strongs><strongs number="2252 5439">imprisoned</strongs><strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="1194">beat</strongs>in every <strongs number="2596 4864">synagogue</strongs>them that <strongs number="4100">believed</strongs><strongs number="1909">on</strongs><strongs number="4571">thee</strongs>: </verse>
      <verse number='20'><strongs number="2532">And</strongs><strongs number="3753">when</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="129">blood</strongs>of <strongs number="4675">thy</strongs><strongs number="3144">martyr</strongs><strongs number="4736">Stephen</strongs>was <strongs number="1632">shed</strongs>, <strongs number="848">I</strongs><strongs number="2532">also</strongs><strongs number="2252">was</strongs>standing <strongs number="2186">by</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="4909">consenting</strongs>unto <strongs number="848">his</strongs><strongs number="336">death</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="5442">kept</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2440">raiment</strongs>of them that <strongs number="337">slew</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='21'><strongs number="2532">And</strongs>he <strongs number="2036">said</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs><strongs number="3165">me</strongs>, <em><strongs number="4198">Depart</strongs>: </em><em><strongs number="3754">for</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1473">I</strongs></em><em> will </em><em><strongs number="1821">send</strongs></em><em><strongs number="4571">thee</strongs></em><em> far <strongs number="3112">hence</strongs></em><em><strongs number="1519">unto</strongs></em><em> the </em><em><strongs number="1484">Gentiles</strongs>. </em></verse>
      <verse number='22'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>they gave him <strongs number="191 846">audience</strongs><strongs number="891">unto</strongs><strongs number="5127">this</strongs><strongs number="3056">word</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><em> then </em>lifted <strongs number="1869">up</strongs><strongs number="848">their</strongs><strongs number="5456">voices</strongs>, and <strongs number="3004">said</strongs>, <strongs number="142">Away</strongs>with <strongs number="5108">such</strongs>a <em> fellow </em><strongs number="575">from</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1093">earth</strongs>: <strongs number="1063">for</strongs>it is not <strongs number="2520 3756">fit</strongs>that <strongs number="846">he</strongs>should <strongs number="2198">live</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='23'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs>as <strongs number="846">they</strongs>cried <strongs number="2905">out</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>cast <strongs number="4495">off</strongs><em> their </em><strongs number="2440">clothes</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="906">threw</strongs><strongs number="2868">dust</strongs><strongs number="1519">into</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="109">air</strongs>, </verse>
      <verse number='24'><strongs number="3588">The</strongs>chief <strongs number="5506">captain</strongs><strongs number="2753">commanded</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>to be <strongs number="71">brought</strongs><strongs number="1519">into</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="3925">castle</strongs>, and <strongs number="2036">bade</strongs>that <strongs number="846">he</strongs>should be <strongs number="426">examined</strongs>by <strongs number="3148">scourging</strongs>; <strongs number="2443">that</strongs>he might <strongs number="1921">know</strongs><strongs number="1223 3739 156">wherefore</strongs>they cried so <strongs number="2019 3779">against</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='25'><strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="5613">as</strongs>they <strongs number="4385">bound</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>with <strongs number="2438">thongs</strongs>, <strongs number="3972">Paul</strongs><strongs number="2036">said</strongs><strongs number="4314">unto</strongs>the <strongs number="1543">centurion</strongs>that stood <strongs number="2476">by</strongs>, Is it <strongs number="1832">lawful</strongs>for <strongs number="5213">you</strongs>to <strongs number="3147">scourge</strongs>a <strongs number="444">man</strongs>that is a <strongs number="4514">Roman</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="178">uncondemned</strongs>? </verse>
      <verse number='26'><strongs number="1161">When</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1543">centurion</strongs><strongs number="191">heard</strongs><em> that, </em>he <strongs number="4334">went</strongs>and <strongs number="518">told</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>chief <strongs number="5506">captain</strongs>, <strongs number="3004">saying</strongs>, Take <strongs number="3708">heed</strongs><strongs number="5101">what</strongs><strongs number="*3195">thou</strongs><strongs number="4160">doest</strongs>: <strongs number="1063">for</strongs><strongs number="3778">this</strongs><strongs number="444">man</strongs><strongs number="2076">is</strongs>a <strongs number="4514">Roman</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='27'><strongs number="1161">Then</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>chief <strongs number="5506">captain</strongs><strongs number="4334">came</strongs>, and <strongs number="2036">said</strongs>unto <strongs number="846">him</strongs>, <strongs number="3004">Tell</strongs><strongs number="3427">me</strongs>, <strongs number="1488">art</strongs><strongs number="4771">thou</strongs>a <strongs number="4514">Roman</strongs>? <strongs number="3588">He</strongs><strongs number="5346">said</strongs>, <strongs number="3483">Yea</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='28'><strongs number="5037">And</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>chief <strongs number="5506">captain</strongs><strongs number="611">answered</strongs>, With a <strongs number="4183">great</strongs><strongs number="2774">sum</strongs><strongs number="2932">obtained</strongs><strongs number="1473">I</strongs><strongs number="5026">this</strongs><strongs number="4174">freedom</strongs>. <strongs number="1161">And</strongs><strongs number="3972">Paul</strongs><strongs number="5346">said</strongs>, <strongs number="1161">But</strongs><strongs number="1473">I</strongs><strongs number="*2532">was</strongs><em> free </em><strongs number="1080">born</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='29'><strongs number="3767">Then</strongs><strongs number="2112">straightway</strongs>they <strongs number="868">departed</strongs><strongs number="575">from</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>which <strongs number="3195">should</strongs>have <strongs number="426">examined</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>: <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>chief <strongs number="5506">captain</strongs><strongs number="1161">also</strongs>was <strongs number="5399">afraid</strongs>, after he <strongs number="1921">knew</strongs><strongs number="3754">that</strongs>he <strongs number="2076">was</strongs>a <strongs number="4514">Roman</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3754">because</strongs>he <strongs number="2258">had</strongs><strongs number="1210">bound</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs>. </verse>
      <verse number='30'><strongs number="*1161">On</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="1887">morrow</strongs>, because he <strongs number="1014">would</strongs>have <strongs number="1097">known</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="804">certainty</strongs><strongs number="5101">wherefore</strongs>he was <strongs number="2723">accused</strongs><strongs number="3844">of</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs><strongs number="2453">Jews</strongs>, he <strongs number="3089">loosed</strongs><strongs number="846">him</strongs><strongs number="575">from</strongs><em> his </em><strongs number="1199">bands</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="2753">commanded</strongs><strongs number="3588">the</strongs>chief <strongs number="749">priests</strongs><strongs number="2532">and</strongs><strongs number="3650">all</strongs><strongs number="848">their</strongs><strongs number="4892">council</strongs>to <strongs number="2064">appear</strongs>, <strongs number="2532">and</strongs>brought Paul <strongs number="2609 3972">down</strongs>, and <strongs number="2476">set</strongs>him <strongs number="1519">before</strongs><strongs number="846">them</strongs>. </verse>
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