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

⁶ But on my way, as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly about noon, a blaze of light flashed around me from heaven, ⁷ and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

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

¹⁰ Then I said, 'What am I to do, sir?' The Lord said to me, 'Get up and go into Damascus. There you will be told of all you are destined to do.'

¹¹ As I could not see, because of the dazzling light, my companions had to lead me by the hand, and so I reached Damascus. ¹² There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there, ¹³ came to see me, and standing by my side, said to me, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' Then instantly I regained my sight and looked at him, ¹⁴ and he said, 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to learn his will and to see his Righteous One and hear him speak, ¹⁵ for you shall be his witness before all men of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

¹⁷ After I had returned to Jerusalem, one day when I was praying in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

¹⁹ And I said, 'Lord, they know that I used to go through one synagogue after another, and to imprison and flog those who believed in you, ²⁰ and when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood by and approved it, and took charge of the clothes of the men who killed him.'

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "