Acts 22:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4 : 1 Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know that this man(whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows) 4 was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.
  • Gal 1:18 : 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
  • Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
  • Acts 9:26-28 : 26 Saul Returns to Jerusalem When he arrived in Jerusalem, he attempted to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took Saul, brought him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus. 28 So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.
  • Acts 10:9-9 : 9 About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.

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  • Acts 22:6-11
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    6As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

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

    8I answered,‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me,‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’

    9Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

    10So I asked,‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me,‘Get up and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything that you have been designated to do.’

    11Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.

  • Acts 11:5-6
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    5“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

    6As I stared I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

  • Acts 22:18-21
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    18and saw the Lord saying to me,‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

    19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

    20And when the blood of your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing nearby, approving, and guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.’

    21Then he said to me,‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

  • Acts 22:13
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    13came to me and stood beside me and said to me,‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up and saw him.

  • Acts 22:15-16
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    15because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

    16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

  • Acts 26:12-17
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    12“While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

    13about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.

    14When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’

    15So I said,‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied,‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

    16But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.

    17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

  • Acts 26:21
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    21For this reason the Jews, after they seized me while I was in the temple courts, were trying to kill me.

  • Acts 9:3-4
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    3As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

    4He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

  • Acts 9:11-12
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    11Then the Lord told him,“Get up and go to the street called‘Straight,’ and at Judas’ house look for a man from Tarsus named Saul. For he is praying,

    12and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he may see again.”

  • Acts 26:19
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    19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Acts 20:22
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    22And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

  • Acts 10:9-10
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    9About noon the next day, while they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

    10He became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing the meal, a trance came over him.

  • Acts 24:11
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    11As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

  • Acts 24:17-18
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    17After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

    18which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

  • Acts 9:6
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    6But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”

  • Acts 9:17-18
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    17So Ananias departed and entered the house, placed his hands on Saul and said,“Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

    18Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

  • Acts 20:19
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    19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

  • Gal 1:17-18
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    17nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before me, but right away I departed to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

    18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

  • Acts 10:30
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    30Cornelius replied,“Four days ago at this very hour, at three o’clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me

  • Acts 11:10-11
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    10This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

    11At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

  • Acts 22:2
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    2(When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

  • Acts 9:28
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    28So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-2
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    1Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

    2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

  • Acts 21:29
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    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

  • Acts 22:4
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    4I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

  • Acts 10:16
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    16This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

  • Gal 1:13
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    13For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.