⁹ Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees’ group stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”^(A)

Paul Sent to the Gentiles

¹⁷ “After I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance^{(A) 18} and saw Jesus^[a] saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

⁷ I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

²⁹ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

³¹ and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”^(A)

²⁵ But I found that he had done nothing deserving death, and when he appealed to his Imperial Majesty, I decided to send him.^(A)

²⁹ I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law but was charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.^(A)

¹⁶ When the scribes of^[a] the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, “Why does he eat^[b] with tax collectors and sinners?”^(A)

²² Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?^(A)

²³ For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,^(A)