Acts 26:12-23 - Paul's Account Of His Conversion And Commission
12 "On this errand I was traveling to Damascus one day, armed with authority and commission of the chief priests, 13 "when at noon, as I journeyed, O King, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and around those who journeyed with me. 14 "We all fell to the ground; and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew. "'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goad.'
15 "'Who are you, Lord?' I said." And the Lord said: 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16 "'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you. 17 "'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes 18 "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
19 "So then, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision; 20 "but I proceeded to preach, first to those in Damascus, and then in Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God and do deeds worthy of repentance. 21 "For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me. 22 "But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come; 23 "how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."