11. I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme. And being extremely enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12. “So I went to Damascus with authority and a commission from the chief priests.
13. At midday, O King, I saw along the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.
14. When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15. “I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’“He said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.