9"I most assuredly thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
13at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
14When we had all fallen to the earth, 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 goad.`
15I said, `Who are you, Lord?` He said, `I am Jesus, whom you persecute.
