16. And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’
17. When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance
18. and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’
19. I replied, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
20. And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’
21. Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”