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The OET Readers’ Version is designed to be read alongside the Literal Version. Expand the matching Literal Version beneath each passage. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
Acts 8:3:
3 As for Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos/Saul), he started on destroying the assembly by entering people’s homes and dragging both men and women out and then off to prison.[ref]
22:4-5:
4 I used to persecute the followers of ‘The Path’ even to death—tying up both men and women and handing them over to the prisons 5 as the Chief Priest and all the council of elders can tell you. I took letters from them to our Jewish brothers in Damesek (Damascus) when I went so that I could arrest the ones there and bring them back here to Yerushalem (Jerusalem) to be punished.
26:9-11:
9 “I too originally thought it necessary to do many things to oppose the cause of this Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) from Nazaret. 10 So in Yerushalem I worked to have many of these innocent believers locked up in prison with the authority of the chief priests, or if they were to be killed, I would add my vote against them. 11 And in all the Jewish meeting halls, when I found believers I punished them and forced them to curse God and treated them with extreme anger, even travelling to further away towns.
Acts 22:3:
3 “I am a Yehudi who grew up in this very city to study under Gamliel. I’ve been raised according to every part of our ancestral law, working hard to obey God like all of you here today.
Acts 9:3-6:
3 On his journey as he approached Damesek, suddenly light from the sky flashed around him. 4 He dropped to his knees[fn] and heard a voice calling, “Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why are you persecuting me?”
5 “Who are you, master?” he asked.
And the voice replied, “I’m Yeshua, the one that you’re persecuting. 6 Now, stand up and go into the city, and you’ll be told there what you need to do.”
9:4 It seems most likely that Paul and company were walking to Damascus (and not on horseback despite paintings by Caravaggio and others). The journey of somewhere around 300km would have taken around two weeks.
22:6-10:
22:6 Paulos explains about his conversion
(Acts 9:1-19; 26:12-18)
6 “But one time as I was travelling and getting close to Damesek (Damascus) by the middle of the day, suddenly a bright light from the sky began to flash around me 7 and I fell to the ground. I heard a voice asking me, ‘Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos/Saul), Sha’ul, why are you persecuting me?’ 8 ‘Who are you, master?’ I answered. And the voice said, ‘I am Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus)—the one from Nazaret that you are persecuting.’ 9 The other people with me saw the light but didn’t hear the voice that spoke to me. 10 Then I asked, ‘What do I need to do, master?’ ‘Get up and continue into Damesek,’ the master said. ‘When you get there, you’ll be told everything that you’ve been assigned to do.’
26:13-18:
13 that in the middle of the day, your majesty, I saw a bright light from the sky—even brighter than the sun—and it shone on me and my companions. 14 All of us fell down to the ground and I heard a voice speaking to me in Hebrew saying, ‘Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos/Saul), Sha’ul, why are you persecuting me? Life will be difficult for you if you resist me.’
15 ‘Who are you, master?’, I asked.
“And the master responded, ‘I am Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus), the one you’re persecuting. 16 Now get up, because I let you see me in order to appoint you as my servant and my witness—to tell the people what you’ve seen and what you will be shown. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the non-Jews that I’m sending you out to, 18 to open their minds and for them to turn back from darkness to light and from Satan’s power to God, so that they can be forgiven for their sins and receive an inheritance among the ones who’ve been made guiltless by their faith in me.’
Acts 9:26-30:
26 When he got back to Yerushalem (Jerusalem), Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos/Saul) attempted to join in with the believers there but they were all scared of him, not believing that he was a true follower of Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus). 27 However Barnabas took Sha’ul and brought him to the twelve, and Sha’ul told them how he had seen the master on the road, and been spoken to by him, and how he had spoken boldly in Damesek (Damascus) in the name and authority of Yeshua. 28 So Sha’ul stayed connected with the believers, going in and out of Yerushalem and speaking boldly in the name and authority of the master. 29 He also talked and debated with the Greek-speaking Yehudim (Jews), but they wanted to kill him, 30 so when the brothers found out, they took Sha’ul down to Kaisareia on the coast, and from there sent him on a ship to Tarsos.
