022:013 came to me and standing at my side said, "`Brother Saul, recover your sight.' "I instantly regained my sight and looked up at him. 022:014 Then he said, `The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the righteous One and hear Him speak. 022:015 For you shall be a witness for Him, to all men, of what you have seen and heard. 022:016 And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.' 022:017 "After my return to Jerusalem, and while praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance. 022:018 I saw Jesus, and He said to me, "`Make haste and leave Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.' 022:019 "`Lord,' I replied, `they themselves well know how active I was in imprisoning, and in flogging in synagogue after synagogue those who believe in Thee; 022:020 and when they were shedding the blood of Stephen, Thy witness, I was standing by, fully approving of it, and I held the clothes of those who were killing him.' 022:021 "`Go,' He replied; `I will send you as an Apostle to nations far away.'" 022:022 Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live." 022:023 And when they continued their furious shouts, throwing their clothes into the air and flinging dust about, 022:024 the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and be examined by flogging, in order to ascertain the reason why they thus cried out against him. 022:025 But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?" 022:026 On hearing this question, the Captain went to report the matter to the Tribune. "What are you intending to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen." 022:027 So the Tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said. 022:028 "I paid a large sum for my citizenship," said the Tribune. "But I was born free," said Paul. 022:029 So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound. 022:030 The next day, wishing to know exactly what charge was being brought against him by the Jews, the Tribune ordered his chains to be removed; and, having sent word to the High Priests and all the Sanhedrin to assemble, he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.