Then the Lord told him, "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

While they were listening to these things, they became more and more furious and began to grind their teeth at him.

He dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

When Saul got up off the ground, he couldn't see anything, even though his eyes were open. So his companions took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

and saw heaven open and something like a large linen sheet coming down, being lowered by its four corners to the ground.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'