17. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
18. to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
19. ‘So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven.
20. First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
21. That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.
22. But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen –