16. What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’
17. “After I returned to Jerusalem, I was praying in the Temple and fell into a trance.
18. I saw a vision of Jesus saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem, for the people here won’t accept your testimony about me.’
19. “‘But Lord,’ I argued, ‘they certainly know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
20. And I was in complete agreement when your witness Stephen was killed. I stood by and kept the coats they took off when they stoned him.’
21. “But the Lord said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!’”
22. The crowd listened until Paul said that word. Then they all began to shout, “Away with such a fellow! He isn’t fit to live!”
23. They yelled, threw off their coats, and tossed handfuls of dust into the air.