Acts 26:11-19 and, punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was compelling them to blaspheme; and, being exceedingly enraged against them, I was persecuting them even unto foreign cities.

Worrell⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹¹ and, punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was compelling them to blaspheme; and, being exceedingly enraged against them, I was persecuting them even unto foreign cities. ¹² Meanwhile as I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and a commission from the high priests, ¹³ at midday, O King, I saw, in the way, a light from Heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and those journeying with me. ¹⁴ And, we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul! Saul! why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' ¹⁵ And I said, 'Who art Thou, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ But arise, and stand upon your feet; for I appeared to you for this end, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things in which you saw Me, and of the things 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, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.' ¹⁹ Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;