DEUTERONOMY 21:1-9
CONCERNING UNSOLVED MURDERS
1 “Suppose someone is found murdered in a field in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you, and you do not know who killed him.
2 Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.
3 Then the leaders of the town nearest to where the body was found are to select a young cow that has never been used for work.
4 They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been plowed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.
5 The levitical priests are to go there also, because they are to decide every legal case involving violence. The Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name.
6 Then all the leaders from the town nearest the place where the murdered person was found are to wash their hands over the cow
7 and say, ‘We did not murder this one, and we do not know who did it.
8 Lord, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.’
9 And so, by doing what the Lord requires, you will not be held responsible for the murder.
ACTS 22:6-16
PAUL TELLS OF HIS CONVERSION
6 “As I was traveling and coming near Damascus, about midday a bright light from the sky flashed suddenly around me.
7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?’
8 ‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute,’ he said to me.
9 The men with me saw the light, but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
10 I asked, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ and the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told everything that God has determined for you to do.’
11 I was blind because of the bright light, and so my companions took me by the hand and led me into Damascus.
12 “In that city was a man named Ananias, a religious man who obeyed our Law and was highly respected by all the Jews living there.
13 He came to me, stood by me, and said, ‘Brother Saul, see again!’ At that very moment I saw again and looked at him.
14 He said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see his righteous Servant, and to hear him speaking with his own voice.
15 For you will be a witness for him to tell everyone what you have seen and heard.
16 And now, why wait any longer? Get up and be baptized and have your sins washed away by praying to him.’
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