\subsection{Acts 22}
\VS{1} Men, brothers and fathers, hear now my defense to you! 
\VS{2} Now having 
heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language they rather granted 
silence. And he said: 
\VS{3} I am [a] Jewish man, having been born in Tarsus of 
Kilikia, having been reared in that city, having been educated before the 
feet of Gamaliel in every exactness of the law from [our] fathers, being [a] zealot 
of God just as you all are today, 
\VS{4} I who persecuted this way until 
death, binding and delivering up to prison both men and women, 
\VS{5} as 
also the chief-priests and every elder testifies of me, besides which having 
taken letters to the brothers, I went to Damascus to be bringing those being 
there also, [those] having been bound, to Jerusalem in order that they be punished. 
\VS{6} Now it came to pass as I [was] going and drawing near to Damascus, 
around noon suddenly [a] great light shone around me. 
\VS{7} And I fell to the 
ground and heard [a] voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? 
\VS{8} So I answered: Who are [you], Lord? And he answered me: I am Jesus the 
Nazarene, whom you persecute. 
\VS{9} Now those being with me beheld the light\footnote{insert ``and became afraid"': \koine{}D; as the text reads: \hesychian{}\papyrus{74} }, 
but they did not hear the voice speaking to me. 
\VS{10} So I said: 
What shall I do, Lord? So the Lord said to me: Having arisen, be going to 
Damascus, and there it will be spoken to you concerning all which it is 
appointed for you to do. 
\VS{11} Now as I did not see from the glory of that 
light, having been led by the hand by those being with me, we came to 
Damascus. 
\VS{12} Now a certain Ananias, [a] man devout according to the law, 
being [well] testified by all Jews dwelling [there], 
\VS{13} having come to me and having 
approached, he said to me: Brother Saul, regain [your] sight. And I in that hour 
looked up upon him. 
\VS{14} So he said: The God of our fathers chose you to 
know his will and to see [his] just [one] and to hear [a] voice from his mouth, 
\VS{15} because you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and 
have heard. 
\VS{16} And what are you now [about] [to do]? Having arisen, you will be 
baptized and washed [from] your sins, having called upon his name. 
\VS{17} Now it 
came to pass when I returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the 
temple, I came to be in [a] trance, 
\VS{18} and saw him saying to me: Hurry and 
depart in haste from Jerusalem, for they will not receive your witness 
concerning me. 
\VS{19} And I said: Lord, these were persuaded that I was 
imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those believing upon you. 
\VS{20} 
And when the blood of Stephen your witness was poured out, I myself also was 
standing by and consenting and guarding the garments of those doing away 
with him. 
\VS{21} And he said to me: Be going, for I will send you out far 
to the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}.

\VS{22} Now they heard him until this word, and they raised their voice 
saying: Be taking such [a one] from the land, for he is not fit to zoe-live\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{23} And while they were crying out and throwing off their garments and throwing 
dust into the air, 
\VS{24} the commander ordered him to be brought into the 
military base, having said [for] him to be thoroughly questioned with [the] whip --- in order that I know for what reason they thus cry out to him. 
\VS{25} Now 
as they stretched him out with thongs, Paul said to the centurion standing 
[there]: Is it allowed for you to be flogging [a] man [who is] Roman and 
uncondemned\footnote{i.e. hasn't been tried}? 
\VS{26} Now having heard, the 
centurion having gone to the commander reported to him saying: What are you 
[about] to be doing? For this man is a Roman. 
\VS{27} So having come, the commander 
said to him: Be telling me: Are you Roman? So he said: Yes. 
\VS{28} So the 
centurion answered: I obtained this [my] citizenship from many sums of money. 
But Paul said: And I am [born] [such]. 
\VS{29} Straightway therefore those [about] to be 
questioning him [with the whip] withdrew from him. And the commander feared, having known 
that he is Roman and that he had taken [him]. 

\VS{30} Now on the morrow, intending to know the certain [facts], the [reason] why he was 
accused by the Jews, he loosed him, and ordered the chief priests and all 
the counsel to come together, and having brought down Paul, he stood [him] before 
them.
