⁷ And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

^17 (A)“When I had returned to Jerusalem and ^(B)was praying in the temple, I fell into ^(C)a trance ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, ^(D)‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

²⁹ The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, ^(A)“An angel has spoken to him.”