Acts 22:6-21 - Paul Tells Of His Conversion On The Damascus Road

⁶ But on my way, just before I reached Damascus, suddenly about noon a blaze of light from heaven flashed around me, ⁷ and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

⁸ I answered, 'Who are you, Sir?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.' ⁹ The men who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of Him who was speaking to me.

¹⁰ Then I asked, 'What am I to do, Lord?' And the Lord answered, 'Get up and go into Damascus, and there it will be told you what you are destined to do.'

¹¹ Since I could not see because of the dazzling sheen of that light, I was led by the hand by my companions and in this way I reached Damascus. ¹² There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side said to me, 'Saul, my brother, recover your sight!' Then instantly I did recover it and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear Him speak, ¹⁵ because you are to be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.'

¹⁷ After I had come back to Jerusalem, one day while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste and at once get out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

¹⁹ So I said, 'Lord, they know for themselves that from one synagogue to another I used to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and held the clothes of those who killed him.'

²¹ Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"