humiliation meant to punish him for the violence he has perpetrated to this point. But a better interpretation is to see it as an enactment of the gospel. Saul embodies reversal; or, reversal happens to him when Jesus disrupts his expectation. Saul changes from seeing to being blind. His confident persecutor’s zeal gives way to confessed ignorance about the “Lord” he cannot recognize on his own. He changes from a man intending to lead captives to Jerusalem in chains to one forced to be led into Damascus