Acts 9:17

and *pleaded with Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come, that by coming, You may lay Your hands on her, so that she will be saved and live.”

And it happened that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

And these they stood before the apostles, and after praying, they laid their hands on them.

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

and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.”

“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,

came to me, and standing near, said to me, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very hour I regained my sight and saw him.

“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from His mouth.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

and consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,