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11 In all the synagogues and often I punished them and compelled them to say profane words. Being excessively mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
12 "Thus engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and commission from the high priests,
13 about midday, on the road, I saw, O King, a light above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven around me and my companions.
14 We all fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goad.'
15 I said, 'Who is speaking?' He said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
16 But rise and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you a servant and a witness of the times you have seen me and of the times I shall appear to you.
17 I will deliver you from your people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'
19 After that, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,