Acts 26:10-14

English Standard Version

^10 (A)And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority ^(B)from the chief priests, but ^(C)when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ And ^(D)I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them ^(E)blaspheme, and ^(F)in raging fury against them I ^(G)persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Paul Tells of His Conversion

¹² “In this connection ^(H)I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. ¹³ At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me. ¹⁴ And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me ^(I)in the Hebrew language,^[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’