5
As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
6
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.
7
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'
8
I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'
9
Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.