12. “I was traveling to Damascus under these circumstances with authority and a commission from the chief priests.
13. King Agrippa, while on the road at midday, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.
14. We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15. “Then I said, ‘Who are You, Lord? ’“And the Lord replied: ‘I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting.
16. But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness of what you have seen and of what I will reveal to you.
17. I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them
18. to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified.’
19. “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.