Acts 22:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ As the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the ancients: from whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.

⁶ And it came to pass, as I was going, and drawing nigh to Damascus at midday, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light:

⁷ And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?