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About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
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We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
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‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
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‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.
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I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them