26 ¹⁹ 'And so. King Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision. 26 ²⁰ I turned first to the inhabitants of Damascus, and then to Jerusalem and all the country of Judaea, and to the Gentiles, and sounded the call to repent and turn to God, and to prove their repentance by deeds. 26 ²¹ That is why the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to do away with me. 26 ²² But I had God's help, and so to this very day I stand and testify to great and small alike. I assert nothing beyond what was foretold by the prophets and by Moses: 26 ²³ that the Messiah must suffer, and that he, the first to rise from the dead, would announce the dawn to Israel and to the Gentiles.'