15. `And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;
16. but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things [in which] I will appear to thee,
17. delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,
18. to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that [is] toward me.
19. `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
20. but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
21. because of these things the Jews--having caught me in the temple--were endeavouring to kill [me].