15 ‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. And the Lord answered, ‘I am Jesus, whom you persecute.
16 But get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of me today and what I will show you in the future.
17 I will rescue you from the people of Israel and from the Gentiles to whom I will send you.
18 You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.’
19 “And so, King Agrippa, I did not disobey the vision I had from heaven.
20 First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.
21 It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me.