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

⁶ While I was still on my way, just as I was getting close to Damascus, about mid-day, suddenly there flashed from the heavens a great light all round me. ⁷ I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

⁸ 'Who are you, Lord?' I replied. Then the voice said 'I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.' ⁹ The men with me saw the light, but did not hear the speaker's voice.

¹⁰ Then I said 'What am I to do, Lord?' 'Get up and go into Damascus,' The Lord said to me, 'and there you shall be told all that you have been appointed to do.'

¹¹ In consequence of that dazzling light I could not see, but my companions held me by the hand, till I reached Damascus. ¹² There a man named Ananias, a strict observer of our Law, well spoken of by all the Jewish inhabitants, came to see me. ¹³ Standing close to me, he said 'Saul, my Brother, recover your sight.' And then and there I recovered my sight and looked up at him. ¹⁴ Then he said 'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from his lips; ¹⁵ For you shall be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard. ¹⁶ And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his Name.

¹⁷ After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance, ¹⁸ And saw Jesus saying to me 'Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

¹⁹ 'Lord,' I answered, 'these people know that I used to imprison and scourge, in Synagogue after Synagogue, those who believed in you; ²⁰ And, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.

²¹ But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."