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The cohen hagadol and the whole Sanhedrin can also testify to this. Indeed, after receiving letters from them to their colleagues in Dammesek, I was on my way there in order to arrest the ones in that city too and bring them back to Yerushalayim for punishment.
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"As I was traveling and approaching Dammesek, around noon, suddenly a brilliant light from heaven flashed all around me!
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I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Sha'ul! Sha'ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?'
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I answered, 'Sir, who are you?' 'I am Yeshua from Natzeret,' he said to me, 'and you are persecuting me!'
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Those who were with me did see the light, but they didn't hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.