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

When they heard that, they were enraged and ground their teeth at him.

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

When he got up from the ground and opened his eyes he could see nothing. They had to take him by the hand and lead him into Damascus,

and saw the sky opened and a thing like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by the four corners,

and though they could find no ground for putting him to death, they demanded of Pilate that he be executed.

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting at the window, became very drowsy as Paul's address grew longer and longer, and finally went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

"The Jews," he answered, "have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, on the ground that you mean to have a fuller inquiry made into his case.

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!'