^{9 Ref} "I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

^{10 Ref} This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

^{11 Ref} Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

^{12 Ref} "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

^{13 Ref} at noon, O King, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

^{14 Ref} When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

^{15 Ref} "I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

^{16 Ref} But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;