Conversion of Saul
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Immediately Saul received sight, and arose, and was baptized. He
then preached Christ in the synagogues, that he was the Son of God.
All who heard him were amazed, and inquired, Is not this he that de-
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stroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem? and come hither
on that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests.
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews.
They were again in trouble. Saul told his experience in the power of
the Holy Spirit. All were acquainted with the fact of Saul’s opposition
to Jesus, and his zeal in hunting out and delivering up to death all who
believed on his name. His miraculous conversion convinced many that
Jesus was the Son of God. Saul related his experience, that as he was
persecuting unto the death, binding and delivering into prison, both
men and women, as he journeyed to Damascus, suddenly a great light
from heaven shone round about him, and Jesus revealed himself to him,
and taught him that he was the Son of God. As Saul boldly preached
Jesus, he carried a powerful influence with him. He had knowledge of
the scriptures, and after his conversion a divine light shone upon the
prophecies concerning Jesus, which enabled him to clearly and boldly
present the truth, and to correct any perversion of the scriptures. With
the Spirit of God resting upon him, he would in a clear and forcible
manner carry his hearers down through the prophecies to the time
of Christ’s first advent, and show them that the scriptures had been
fulfilled, which referred to Christ’s sufferings, death and resurrection.
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