Acts 22:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. From them I also received letters to our brethren in Damascus, and I set out to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment.

⁶“While I was on my way and drawing near Damascus, around midday a great light from the sky suddenly shone all around me. ⁷I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’