Acts 26:12-23 - Paul's Account Of His Conversion And Commission
12 While in this business I once was on my way to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests, 13 and on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, flash around me and my fellow-travelers. 14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you continue to persecute me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the goad.'
15 'Who are you, Sir?' said I. 'I am Jesus,' the Lord said, 'whom you are persecuting. 16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you my servant and a witness to me of the things which you have seen and those which I shall yet enable you to see. 17 I will continue to rescue you from the Jewish people and from the heathen to whom I am going to send you, 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'
19 Therefore, King Agrippa, I could not disobey that heavenly vision, 20 but I began to preach first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem, and all over Judea, and then to the heathen, to repent and turn to God, and to live lives consistent with such repentance. 21 For these very things the Jews arrested me in the temple and kept on trying to kill me. 22 As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place, 23 if the Christ should suffer, and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to the Jewish people and to the heathen."