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Title: Ancient apostles
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: McKay, David O. (David Oman), 1873-1970 Deseret Sunday School Union
Subjects: Apostles
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Sunday School Union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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night, hope to come. For this hope, KingAgrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should itbe thought a thing which thou couldst not believe,that God should raise the dead? At one time, I verily thought myself, that I oughtto do many things contrary to the name of Jesus ofNazareth; and this I did in Jerusalem: and many ofthe Saints I shut up in prison, having received au-thority from the chief priests; and even when theywere put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, andcompelled them to blaspheme; and being exceeding-ly mad against them, I persecuted them even untostrange cities. Whereupon as I went to Damascuswith authority and commission from the chief priests,at midday, 0 King, I saw in the way a light fromheaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining roundabout me and them who journeyed with me. And whenwe were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speak-ing unto me, saying, in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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Two Years in Prison 225 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he answered, I am Jesus whom thou perse-cutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I haveappeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee aminister and a witness both of these things whichthou hast seen, and of those things in which I willappear unto thee; delivering thee from the people,and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,to open their eyes, and to turn them from darknessto light, and from the power of Satan unto God,that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inherit-ance among them who are sanctified by faith that isin me. Whereupon, 0 King Agrippa, I was not disobedi-ent unto the heaveny vision: but explained first untothem of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughoutall the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, thatthey should repent and turn to God, and to works meetfor repentance. For these causes the Jews caught me in the tem-ple, and went about to kill me. Having therefore obtained help of

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