Acts 26:17

“For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible lips or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel,

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,

“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief.