Acts 9:18

King James Version (KJV)

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

Translations

Acts 9:18 - Amplified Bible

And instantly something like scales fell from [Saul's] eyes, and he recovered his sight. Then he arose and was baptized,

Acts 9:18 - American Standard Version

And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;

Acts 9:18 - Bible in Basic English

And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;

Acts 9:18 - Darby Bible

And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he saw, and rising up was baptised;

Acts 9:18 - English Standard Version

And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;

Acts 9:18 - King James Version

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

Acts 9:18 - La Biblia de las Americas

Al instante cayeron de sus ojos como unas escamas, y recobrò la vista; y se levantò y fue bautizado.

Acts 9:18 - The Message

Acts 9:18 - New American Standard Bible

And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;

Acts 9:18 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Al instante cayeron de sus ojos como unas escamas, y recobrò la vista; y se levantò y fue bautizado.

Acts 9:18 - World English Bible

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

Acts 9:18 - Young's Living Translation

And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,

Acts 9:18 - Additional Comments

Other famous dramatic turnarounds in the lives of people who became leaders in the Christian faith:
--- Lee Strobel
Most of his life he was a devout atheist.
He "thought the idea of an all loving and powerful creator of the universe was stupid."
He was the legal editor of the Chicago Tribune.
He needed evidence before he would believe anything.
At one point his wife became a Christian, and he thought it was the worst possible news he could have received.
He used his journalism and legal training to begin an investigation into Christianity and any other world faith. He spent 21 months doing the investigation. Then, on November 8, 1981, he decided that "in light of the torrent of evidence flowing in the direction of the truth of Christianity, it would require more faith for me to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian." He could not swim upstream against all the evidence. "I was trained in journalism and law to respond to truth", and he decided he had to with Christianity.
Lee pastored a megachurch, and wrote the "Case for ..." books, like the Case for Christ.
--- Jerry Falwell
His grandfather was a staunch atheist.
His father was an entrepreneur, a bootlegger, an agnostic who hated preachers, and a drunkard. His dad struggled through about the last 20 years of his life because he shot and killed his brother. It was ruled self defense, but he was burdened with it for the rest of his life.
Jerry said "I seldom went inside a church. I like pretty girls, fast cars, late night parties, ..., poker games, and beer busts."
When he started going to a church, people recognized him as "the rowdy Falwell kid from Rustburg Road whose father ran booze during the Depression and who family had a rough and ready reputation in Lynchburg."
He was saved on January 20, 1952.
When he started dating a girl in the church named Macel, who he would eventually marry, Macel's mother didn't like Jerry. She knew his family's reputation in Lynchburg and had convinced Macel that he was a "typical Falwell" and would lead her down the primrose path if she took one step in his direction.
Jerry founded a church that grew to 24,000 members, started Moral Majority, was the symbol of Christianity in the U.S. for many years, started the Old Time Gospel Hour radio program, and founded Liberty University.
--- Augustine
Augustine was born on November 13, 354, in North Africa (present-day Algeria). His parents were Romans citizens of modest means; his father was a pagan, and his mother, Monica, a Christian. In his Confessions series of books, he dramatically recounts the first 33 years of his life until his conversion in 387.
Augustine describes his adolescence in terms of "my past wickedness and the carnal corruptions of my soul." During his teenage years he says that he was pricked by the "briars of unclean lusts." He tells a story about how a bunch of boys stole a load full of pears, for no reason at all except that it was wrong to do so.
In 370, the year his father died Augustine was sent to study at Carthage. As he writes, "I came to Carthage, where a cauldron of illicit loves leapt and boiled about me. I was not yet in love, but I was in love with love." Around 371, he took a concubine and "did fall in love, simply from wanting to." He had a son by her in 372. But in 373, he "changed the direction" of his interests and kindled a passion for philosophy and its quest for truth.
Around 374, Augustine wrote that, throughout the "nine-year period, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I was led astray myself and led others astray." During this time he remained faithful to his concubine, bonded by "a lustful love," and cared for their son. He moved to Milan, where he heard Bishop Ambrose preach. At first, Augustine was interested only in his eloquent style rather than in the content of his sermons. But gradually, Ambrose made him see that faith could be maintained on reasonable grounds.
But in 386, sexual passion still restrained him from committing to Christianity. "I in my great worthlessness [he writes to God] had begged You for chastity, saying: "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet." For I was afraid that You would hear my prayer too soon, and too soon would heal me from disease of which I wanted satisfied rather than extinguished."
One day he was wondering how long it would take before his intellectual conversion would be accompanied by a moral one, when suddenly a child's voice, in "a sort of sing-song, repeated again and again, 'Take and read, take and read.'" He thought that this was a message from God, and picked up the bible and read the first passage he saw. It was from Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13:13-14: "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences." He says that as soon as he finished the sentence, he felt as if "all the darkness of uncertainty vanished away." Now his will as well as his mind was converted to God.
Augustine was a prolific writer of themes of the Christian faith.

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