Acts 22:16-20 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

16. Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'

17. "It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,

18. and I saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

19. And I said, 'Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

20. And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.'

Acts 22