Act 26:12-16 | ESV | STEP | In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests .

Acts 26:12-16

Paul Tells of His Conversion

12 “In this connection ^aI 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 ^bin the Hebrew language, ^{▼▼Or the Hebrew dialect (probably Aramaic)} ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15 And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16 But rise and ^dstand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, ^eto appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,