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16 So now, don’t delay. Get up, be ceremonially cleansed through baptism,[a] and have your sins washed away, as you call on His name in prayer.”

17 I returned to Jerusalem, and I was praying here in the temple one day. I slipped into a trance 18 and had a vision in which Jesus said to me, “Hurry! Get out of Jerusalem fast! The people here will not receive your testimony about Me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 22:16 Literally, immersed, in a rite of initiation and purification

16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized(A) and wash your sins away,(B) calling on his name.’(C)

17 “When I returned to Jerusalem(D) and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance(E) 18 and saw the Lord speaking to me. ‘Quick!’ he said. ‘Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.’

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