12. "On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
13. About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions.
14. We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
15. "Then I asked, 'Who are you, Lord?'"'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' the Lord replied.