6 “About noon when I came near Damascus, a bright light from heaven suddenly flashed all around me.
7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8 I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ The voice said, ‘I am Jesus from Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’
9 Those who were with me did not understand the voice, but they saw the light.
10 I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord answered, ‘Get up and go to Damascus. There you will be told about all the things I have planned for you to do.’
11 I could not see, because the bright light had made me blind. So my companions led me into Damascus.
12 “There a man named Ananias came to me. He was a religious man; he obeyed the law of Moses, and all the Jews who lived there respected him.