Acts 26:12–18

¹²‘In which things, also, going on to Damascus—with authority and commission from the chief priests— ¹³at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light—and those going on with me; ¹⁴and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!

¹⁵‘And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; ¹⁶but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee, ¹⁷delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, ¹⁸to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.