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

⁶ Now as I neared Damascus on my journey, suddenly about noon a brilliant light from heaven flashed round me. ⁷ I dropped to the earth and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'

⁸ 'Who are you?' I asked. He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are persecuting me.' ⁹ (My companions saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of him who talked to me.)

¹⁰ I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there?you shall be told about all you are destined to do.'

¹¹ As I could not see owing to the dazzling glare of that light,. my companions took my hand and so I reached Damascus. ¹² Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants, ¹³ came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him. ¹⁴ Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, to see the Just One, and to hear him speak with his own lips. ¹⁵ For you are to be a witness for him before all men, a witness of what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'

¹⁷ When I returned to Jerusalem, it happened that while I was praying in the temple I fell into a trance ¹⁸ and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

¹⁹ 'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues, ²⁰ and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!'

²¹ But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"