Chapter 22, verses 4-12
4
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
5
As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
6
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.
7
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8
I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’
9
“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
10
I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’
11
When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
12
One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
