All at once something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.

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

So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

Barnabas, however, introduced Saul to the apostles, telling them how on the road Saul had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus in Damascus.

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.'