22:1"Men, brothers, and fathers, hear the account which I now give to you." 22:2And when they had heard that he was speaking to them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept still more silence. 22:3And he says: "I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel taught according to the truth of the ancestral law, zealous for the law, just as you all also are today: who persecuted this way to the death, binding and handing over into prisons men and women, as the chief of the priests bears me witness, and all the elders: from whom also receiving letters, I was proceeding to the brothers at Damascus, to bring from there those bound to Jerusalem to be punished.
22:6And it happened, as I was going, and drawing near to Damascus at midday, suddenly from heaven a copious light shone around me: and falling to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' 22:8And I answered: 'Who are you, lord?' 22:8And he said to me: 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.' 22:9And those who were with me saw the light indeed, but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking with me. 22:10And I said: 'What shall I do, lord?' 22:10And the Lord said to me: 'Rising, go to Damascus: and there you will be told about all things which you must do.' 22:11And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus.
22:12And a certain Ananias, a man according to the law, having testimony from all the Jews living there, coming to me and standing by, said to me: 'Brother Saul, look up.' 22:13And in that same hour I looked up at him. 22:14But he said: 'The God of our fathers has ordained you beforehand, to know his will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice from his mouth: for you will be his witness to all men of the things which you have seen and heard. 22:16And now why do you delay? 22:16Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, having called upon his name.' 22:17And it happened, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and was praying in the temple, that I was in a stupor of mind, and saw him saying to me: 'Hurry, and go out quickly from Jerusalem: for they will not receive your testimony about me.' 22:19And I said: 'Lord, they themselves know that I was shutting up in prison, and beating throughout the synagogues those who believed in you: and when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I was standing by, and consenting, and guarding the garments of those who killed him.' 22:21And he said to me: 'Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.'"
22:22And they were listening to him up to this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying: "Take such a one from the earth: for it is not right for him to live." 22:23And as they were shouting, and throwing off their garments, and casting dust into the air, the tribune ordered him to be led into the camp, and to be beaten with whips, and to be tortured, so that he might know for what cause they were shouting so against him. 22:25And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul says to the centurion standing by him: "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?"
22:26This having been heard, the centurion went to the tribune, and reported to him, saying: "What are you about to do? 22:26For this man is a Roman citizen." 22:27And the tribune, coming up, said to him: "Tell me, are you a Roman?" 22:27And he said: "Yes." 22:28And the tribune answered: "I obtained this citizenship for a great sum." 22:28And Paul said: "But I was even born so." 22:29At once, therefore, those who were about to torture him withdrew from him. 22:29The tribune too was afraid after he learned that he was a Roman citizen, and that he had bound him. 22:30And on the next day, wishing to know more carefully for what cause he was being accused by the Jews, he released him, and ordered the priests to come together, and the whole council: and bringing Paul down, he set him among them.