Acts 26:12-23 - Paul's Account Of His Conversion And Commission
12 I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests, 13 when 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 persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'
15 'Who are you, sir?' said I. The Lord said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the express purpose of appointing you to serve me and to testify to what you have seen and to the visions you will have of me. 17 I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'
19 Therefore, King Agrippa, I did not disobey that heavenly vision, 20 but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should. 21 That is why the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me. 22 To this day I have had God's help and I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a thing to what Moses and the prophets declared would happen, 23 if the Christ was to suffer and by being the first to rise from the dead was to proclaim the light to our people and to the heathen."