I dropped to the earth and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'
Then he will answer them, 'I tell you truly, in so far as you did not do it to one of these, even the least of them, you did not do it to me.'
though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;
"Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"
he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Now as I neared Damascus on my journey, suddenly about noon a brilliant light from heaven flashed round me.
'Who are you?' I asked. He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are persecuting me.'