5. as the kohen gadol and all the council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers, and I went to Damascus to bring back to Jerusalem even those who were there in chains—to be punished.
6. “But it happened that as I was traveling and drawing near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly flashed all around me.
7. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’
8. “I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said to me, ‘I am Yeshua ha-Natzrati, whom you are persecuting.’
9. “Now those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.
10. So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ “And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up, and go to Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
11. “But since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.
12. Then a certain Ananias—a devout man according to the Torah, well spoken of by all the Jewish people living there—