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11 and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.
12 I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests,
13 when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers.
14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'
15 'Who are you, sir?' said I. The Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me.
17 I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you
18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'
19 Therefore, King Agrippa, I did not disobey that heavenly vision,