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when at midday along the road, your Excellency, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
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When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.'
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I asked, "Who are you, Lord?' The Lord answered, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
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But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and testify to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you.
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I will rescue you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you