7. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8. “I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ The voice said, ‘I am Jesus from Nazareth, the one you are persecuting.’
9. The men who were with me did not understand the voice, but they saw the light.
10. “I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord answered, ‘Get up and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that I have planned for you to do.’
11. I could not see, because the bright light had made me blind. So the men led me into Damascus.
12. “In Damascus a man named Ananias came to me. He was a man who was devoted to God and obeyed the Law of Moses. All the Jews who lived there respected him.