11. I tried to cause them to blaspheme by punishing them often in the synagogues. In furious rage against them, I persecuted them even in foreign cities.
12. “While journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the ruling kohanim,
13. at midday, O King, I saw on the road a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those traveling with me.
14. When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against goads!’