Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are yoʋ persecuting me?’
He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to me.’
Then the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
“About noon, as I was going along and drawing near to Damascus, a great light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.
I answered, ‘Who are yoʋ, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom yoʋ are persecuting.’
Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are yoʋ persecuting me?”
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent man. But I received mercy because I had ignorantly acted in unbelief,