Acts 22:14-21 Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from His mouth. ¹⁵ For you shall be a witness for Him to all men of the things that you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now why hesitate? Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking the name of the Lord.’ ¹⁷ “Now it happened, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I came to be in a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, ‘Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me’. ¹⁹ So I said: ‘Lord, they know that I used to imprison and beat those believing into you, from one synagogue to another; ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing there and agreeing to his murder, even guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.’ ²¹ And He said to me, ‘Get going, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles’.”