Sawyer(i)
11 And punishing them often in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to cities abroad.
12 (23:8) In which [persecutions] also, going to Damascus with authority, and a commission from the chief priests,
13 at midday I saw in the way O king, a light from heaven shining around me and those going with me, exceeding the brightness of the sun;
14 and when we had all fallen on the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard for you to kick against the goads.
15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecute.
16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of visions ] in which I will appear to you,
17 delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you
18 to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.
19 Whence, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,