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as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.
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“About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.
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I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’
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“ ‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked. “ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied.
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My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.
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“ ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ I asked. “ ‘Get up,’ the Lord said, ‘and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.’