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Acts 9:11-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. And the Lord said to him: "Rise up and go into the street that is called Straight, and seek, in the house of Judas, the one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying."

12. (And Paul saw a man named Ananias entering and imposing hands upon him, so that he might receive his sight.)

13. But Ananias responded: "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

14. And he has authority here from the leaders of the priests to bind all who invoke your name."

15. Then the Lord said to him: "Go, for this one is an instrument chosen by me to convey my name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

16. For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name."

17. And Ananias departed. And he entered the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, he who appeared to you on the way by which you arrived, sent me so that you would receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

18. And immediately, it was as if scales had fallen from his eyes, and he received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized.

19. And when he had taken a meal, he was strengthened. Now he was with the disciples who were at Damascus for some days.

20. And he was continuously preaching Jesus in the synagogues: that he is the Son of God.

21. And all who heard him were astonished, and they said, "Is this not the one who, in Jerusalem, was fighting against those invoking this name, and who came here for this: so that he might lead them away to the leaders of the priests?"

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