4. I persecuted to the death the people who followed this Way. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison.
5. The High Priest and the whole Council can prove that I am telling the truth. I received from them letters written to fellow-Jews in Damascus, so I went there to arrest these people and bring them back in chains to Jerusalem to be punished.
6. “As I was travelling and coming near Damascus, about midday a bright light from the sky flashed suddenly round me.
7. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?’