13. At midday, O King, I saw along the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.
14. When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15. “I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’“He said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
16. But rise and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of what you have seen and of what I will yet reveal to you.
17. I will deliver you from your people and from the Gentiles to whom I now send you,