Acts 22:21

Acts 22:21. And he said onto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. He thus traces step by step, very briefly but clearly, how he was led by the directly expressed will of God to adopt the cause which he once persecuted; how he was shown that his life's work lay not with his own people, but with those races and nations who lay without the narrow pale of Israel. ‘The object of Paul in relating this vision appears to have been to show that his own inclination and prayer had been, that he might preach the gospel to his own people; but that it was by the imperative command of the Lord Himself that he went to the Gentiles' (Dean Alford).