11 In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.
12 “I was traveling to Damascus under these circumstances with authority and a commission from the chief priests.
13 King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.
14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15 “Then I said, ‘Who are You, Lord? ’“And the Lord replied: ‘I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting.
16 But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.
17 I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them