16. And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!’
17. “And it happened that when I returned to Jerusalem and I was praying in the temple courts, I was in a trance,
18. and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and depart quickly from Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’
19. And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that from synagogue to synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those who believed in you.
20. And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I myself also was standing near and was approving, and was guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
21. And he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles!’ ”
22. Now they were listening to him until this word, and they raised their voices, saying, “Away with such a man from the earth! For it is not fitting for him to live!”