Acts 22:16

¹⁶What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’a

In Acts 22, Paul stands on the steps of the Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem and delivers his defense to a hostile Jewish crowd. Speaking in Aramaic, he recounts his former life as a zealous Pharisee, his dramatic encounter with the risen Christ on the Damascus road, and his commission