I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am running away from my mistress Sarai.”
After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?
Therefore once more I accuse you, says the Lord, and I accuse your children’s children.
Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
Then he asked, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
“While I was on my way and approaching Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me.
I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ Then he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
Now the Lord came and stood there, calling as before, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”