13 drawing near to me and standing close by, said to me, 'Brother Saul, see!' And in that same hour, I looked upon him.
14 But he said: 'The God of our fathers has preordained you, so that you would come to know his will and would see the Just One, and would hear the voice from his mouth.
15 For you shall be his witness to all men about those things which you have seen and heard.
16 And now, why do you delay? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, by invoking his name.'
17 Then it happened that, when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, a mental stupor came over me,
18 and I saw him saying to me: 'Hurry! Depart quickly from Jerusalem! For they will not accept your testimony about me.'
19 And I said: 'Lord, they know that I am beating and enclosing in prison, throughout every synagogue, those who have believed in you.