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Acts 9 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts Chapter 9 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder
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  against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
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  and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus,
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  so that if he found any belonging to the way, both men
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  and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
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  As he was travelling, it happened that he was approaching
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  Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him,
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  and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,
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  Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
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  And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom
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  you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city,
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  and it will be told you what you must do.
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  The men who travelled with him stood speechless, hearing the
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  voice, but seeing no one. Saul got up from the ground, and
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  though his eyes were open, he could see nothing.
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  And leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.
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  And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor
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  drink. Now there was a disciple at
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  Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a
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  vision, Ananias. And he said, Here I am, Lord.
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  And the Lord said to him, Get up and go to the street called
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  straight, and inquire at the House of Judas for a man from
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  Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.
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  And he had seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and
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  lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.
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  But Ananias answered, Lord, I've heard from many about this man,
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  how much harm he did to your Saints at Jerusalem, and here he
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  has authority from the chief priest to bind all who call on
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  your name. But the Lord said to him, Go,
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  for he is a chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the
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  Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel, for I will show him
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  how much he must suffer for my name's sake.
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  So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his
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  hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who
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  appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent
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  me, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the
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  Holy Spirit. And immediately there fell from
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  his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and
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  he got up and was baptized, and he took food and was
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  strengthened. Now for several days he was with
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  the disciples who were at Damascus, and immediately he
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  began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogue, saying, He is the Son
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  of God. All those hearing him continued
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  to be amazed and were saying, Is this not he who in Jerusalem
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  destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here
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  for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?
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  But Saul kept increasing in strength and confounding the
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  Jews who lived at Damascus by proving that this Jesus is the
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  Christ. When many days had elapsed, the
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  Jews plotted together to do away with him, but their plot became
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  known to Saul. They were also watching the
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  gates day and night, so that they might put him to death.
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  But his disciples took him by night and let him down through
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  an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.
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  When he came to Jerusalem he was trying to associate with the
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  disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing
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  that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took hold of him
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  and brought him to the apostles, and described to them how he had
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  seen the Lord on the road, and he had talked to him, and how at
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  Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.
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  And he was with them moving about freely in Jerusalem,
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  speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.
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  And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews, but
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  they were attempting to put him to death.
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  But when their brethren learned of it, they brought him down to
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  Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
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  So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria
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  enjoyed peace, being built up and going on in the fear of the
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  Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
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  It continued to increase. Now as Peter was travelling
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  through all those regions, he came down also to the Saints who
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  lived at Lyda. There he found a man named
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  Aeneas who had been bedridden 8 years, for he was paralyzed.
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  Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you, get up and
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  make your bed. Immediately he got up and all
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  who lived at Lyda and Sharon saw him and they turned to the Lord.
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  Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha which
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  translated in Greek is called Dorcas.
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  This woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity,
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  which she continually did, and it happened at that time that
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  she fell sick and died. When they had washed her body,
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  they laid it in an upper room. Since Lida was near Joppa, the
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  disciples, having heard that Peter was there, sent two men to
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  him, imploring. Do not delay in coming to us.
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  So Peter arose and went with them.
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  When he arrived they brought him into the upper room, and all the
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  widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and
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  garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
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  But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and
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  turning to the body he said, Tabitha arise.
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  And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up,
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  and he gave her his hand and raised her up.
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  And calling the Saints and widows he presented her alive,
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  became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
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  And Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a Tanner called
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  Simon.