²³ He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

¹⁹ Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.^(A)

¹⁵ “People,^[a] why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.^(A)

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”^(A)

⁶ His father had never at any time reprimanded him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.^(A)