Acts 26:12-23 - Paul's Account Of His Conversion And Commission
12 I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests, 13 when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers. 14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? You hurt yourself by kicking at the goad.'
15 'Who are you?' I asked. And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus, and you are persecuting me. 16 Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me. 17 I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you, 18 that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'
19 Upon this, O king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision; 20 I announced to those at Damascus and at Jerusalem in the first instance, then all over the land of Judaea, and also to the Gentiles, that they were to repent and turn to God by acting up to their repentance. 21 This is why the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to assassinate me. 22 To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place. 23 that the Christ is capable of suffering, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and bring the message of light to the People and to the Gentiles?"