4. I persecuted this Way, even unto death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women,
5. just as the high priest and all those greater by birth bear witness to me. Having received letters from them to the brothers, I journeyed to Damascus, so that I might lead them bound from there to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.
6. But it happened that, as I was traveling and was approaching Damascus at midday, suddenly from heaven a great light shone around me.
7. And falling to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
8. And I responded, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'
9. And those who were with me, indeed, saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of him who was speaking with me.