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\subsection{Acts 9}
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\VS{1} Now Saul still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the
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Lord, having gone to the chief-priest,
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\VS{2} requested\fnAiteo{} from him letters to
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Damascus to the synagogues, in order that if he find any being of the Way,
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both men and women, having been bound he bring [them] to Jerusalem.
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\VS{3} Now
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while going, it came to pass he drew near to Damascus, and suddenly light
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shined around [him] from heaven,
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\VS{4} and having fallen upon the ground\fnGe{} he heard
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[a] voice\footnote{See Acts.22:9} saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
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\VS{5} So he said: Who are you, Lord? So he [said]: I am Jesus whom you persecute.
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\VS{6} But arise and go into the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must be
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doing.
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\VS{7} Now the men journeying with him stood speechless, on the one
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hand hearing the voice, but on the other hand seeing nothing.
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\VS{8} Now
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Saul was lifted from the ground\fnGe{}, and opening his eyes he was seeing nothing,
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so having led him by the hand they went into Damascus.
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\VS{9} And he was three days not seeing, and he neither ate nor drank.
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\VS{10} Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus, Ananaias by name, and
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the Lord said to him in [a] vision: Ananaia. So he said: Behold [it is] I, Lord.
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\VS{11} So the Lord [said] to him: Having arisen, go to the alley called Straight
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and seek, in [the] house of Juda, Saul by name, [of] Tarsus, for behold he prays.
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\VS{12} And he saw [a] man in [the] vision --- Ananaia by name --- having entered
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and having placed on him [his] hands, in order that he regain [his] sight.
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\VS{13} So
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Ananais answered: Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man, who did
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much evil to your holy [ones] in Jerusalem.
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\VS{14} And here he has authority from
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the chief-priests to bind all those calling upon your name.
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\VS{15} But the
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Lord said: Be going, because this [one] is [a] chosen instrument\footnote{or
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``vessel''} to me to carry my name before the nations and kings and sons
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[of] Israel.
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\VS{16} For I will show him how much he must suffer in behalf of my
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name.
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\VS{17} So Ananaias departed and went out into the house, and having
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placed on him his hands he said: Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus
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the [one] seen by you in the road in which you were coming, in order that you
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regain [your] sight and be filled with [the] Holy Spirit.
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\VS{18} And straightway there
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fell away from his eyes like scales, and he regained [his] sight, and having
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stood he was baptized,
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\VS{19} and having received food he was strengthened.
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Now he came to be with the disciples in Damascus several days,
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\VS{20} and
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straightway he was proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues, that this is the son
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of God.
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\VS{21} Now all those hearing were astonished and were saying: Is
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this not the [one] pillaging in Jerusalem those calling upon this name, and he is
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come here for this, that having bound them he lead [them] to the chief-priests?
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\VS{22} But Saul was rather being strengthened and was confusing [the] Jews
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dwelling in Damascus, demonstrating\footnote{or ``proving''} that this [one] is
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the Christ.
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\VS{23} Now as sufficient days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired to do away
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with him.
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\VS{24} But their plot was known to Paul. Now they were watching
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closely both gates day and night in order that they do away with him.
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\VS{25} But his disciples, having taken [him] by night, they let him down through
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the wall, having lowered [him] in [a] basket.
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\VS{26} Now arriving in Jerusalem he
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was trying to associate with the disciples. And all were fearing him, not
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believing that he is [a] disciple.
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\VS{27} But Barnabbas having taken hold of
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him, brought [him] to the disciples, and described to them how in the road he saw
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the Lord and that he spoke to him, and how he was speaking openly in
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Damascus in the name of Jesus.
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\VS{28} And he was coming in and going out
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with them in Jerusalem, speaking openly in the name of the Lord.
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\VS{29} And
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he spoke and disputed with the Greeks, but they were trying to do away with
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him.
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\VS{30} But the brothers having known, they brought him to Caesarea,
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and sent him out to Tarsus.
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\VS{31} The assembly\fnEkklhsia{} indeed therefore through all
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of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, dwelling and proceeding in the
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fear of the Lord, and they multiplied in the encouragement of the Holy
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Spirit.
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\VS{32} Now it came to pass Peter, having been going around through all,
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also went to the holy [ones] dwelling [in] Lydda.
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\VS{33} Now he found there a certain
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man, Ainea by name, from eight years [old] lying on [a] bed, who was paralyzed.
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\VS{34} And Peter said to him: Ainea, Jesus Christ heals you. Arise and make
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[your bed] yourself.
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\VS{35} And all those dwelling [in] Lydda and Sarona saw, who turned
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to the Lord.
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\VS{36} Now in Joppa there was [a] certain disciple, Tabitha by
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name, which being translated is said Dorcas\footnote{both ``Tabitha''
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(Aramaic) and ``Dorcas'' (Greek) mean ``Gazelle''}; she was full of good
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works and mercies which she did.
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\VS{37} Now it came to pass in those days
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she became sick to dying. So having washed [her] they placed [her] in [an] upper chamber.
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\VS{38} Now Lydda being near to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter
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is in it, they sent two men to him commanding: You should not hesitate to
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come to us.
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\VS{39} So Peter having arisen came to them; who having arrived,
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they brought him to the upper chamber. And there stood by him all the widows
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weeping and showing tunics and garments, as many as Dorcas made while being
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with them.
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\VS{40} So Peter, having put [them] all outside and having knelt, he
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prayed, and having turned to the body he said: Tabitha, arise. So she opened
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her eyes, and having seen Peter she sat up.
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\VS{41} So having given to her
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[his] hand he raised her, and having called the holy [ones] and the widows, he
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presented her zoe-living\fnZoe{}.
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\VS{42} And it became known through the whole of
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Joppa, and many believed upon the Lord.
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\VS{42} But he came to be abiding
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[for] several days in Joppa with a certain Simon [the] tanner.
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