Mark 5:19 Cross References - RYLT

¹⁹ and Jesus did not suffer him, but said to him, 'Go away to your house, unto your own friends, and tell them how great things the Lord did to you, and dealt kindly with you.

²⁹ 'Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

¹ 'Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' -- ² and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he said, -- ³ 'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all you are to-day. ⁴ 'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women, ⁵ as also the chief priest does testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished, ⁶ and it came to pass, in my going on and coming near to Damascus, about noon, suddenly out of the heaven there shone a great light round about me, ⁷ I fell also to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute? ⁸ 'And I answered, Who are you, Lord? and he said unto me, I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you do persecute -- ⁹ and they who are with me the light did see, and became afraid, and the voice they heard not of him who is speaking to me -- ¹⁰ and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told you concerning all things that have been appointed for you to do. ¹¹ 'And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus, ¹² and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling there, ¹³ having come unto me and stood by me, said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him; ¹⁴ and he said, The God of our fathers did choose you beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth, ¹⁵ because you shall be his witness unto all men of what you have seen and heard; ¹⁶ and now, why tarry you? having risen, baptize yourself, and wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁷ 'And it came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the temple, I came into a trance, ¹⁸ and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me; ¹⁹ and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on you; ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being poured forth, I also was standing by and assenting to his death, and keeping the garments of those putting him to death; ²¹ and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send you.'

⁴ 'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews, ⁵ knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee; ⁶ and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged, ⁷ to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews; ⁸ why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead? ⁹ 'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do, ¹⁰ which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them, ¹¹ and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities. ¹² 'In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests -- ¹³ at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me; ¹⁴ and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me do you persecute? hard for you against pricks to kick! ¹⁵ 'And I said, Who are you, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom you do persecute; ¹⁶ but rise, and stand upon your feet, for this I appeared to you, to appoint you an officer and a witness both of the things you did see, and of the things in which I will appear to you, ¹⁷ delivering you from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me. ¹⁹ 'Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, ²⁰ but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation; ²¹ because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill me. ²² 'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come, ²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.' ²⁴ And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, 'You are mad, Paul; much learning does turn you mad;' ²⁵ and he said, 'I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth; ²⁶ for the king does know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing has not been done in a corner; ²⁷ you do believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that you do believe!' ²⁸ And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'In a little you do persuade me to become a Christian!' ²⁹ and Paul said, 'I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only you, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.'