I was travelling to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the high priests,
I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;
(The high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that they were to be informed, if anyone found out where he was, so that they might arrest him.)
when at mid-day on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more dazzling than the sun, flash round me and my fellow-travellers.
and finally he was seen by myself, by this so-called 'abortion' of an apostle.