Twentieth_Century(i)
11 Time after time, in every Synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.
12 It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the Chief Priests,
13 That at mid-day, your Majesty, I saw right in my path, coming from the heavens, a light brighter than the glare of the sun, which shone all round me and those traveling with me.
14 We all fell to the ground, and then I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew-- 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? By kicking against the goad you are punishing yourself.'
15 'Who are you, Lord?' I asked. And the Lord said: "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting;
16 But get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I shall yet appear to you,
17 Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'
19 After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;