Then the Lord said to him, 'Take your shoes off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

As they continued to listen to this address, they were becoming infuriated and began to grind their teeth at him.

He dropped to the ground; then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

Then Saul got up off the ground, but he could not see anything, although his eyes were wide open. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus,

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting by the window, was gradually overcome by heavy drowsiness, as Paul kept speaking longer and longer, and at last he went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground and was picked up dead.

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

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.'