Saul got up from the ground—but opening his eyes, he could see nothing. They led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
Then he divided his servants against them at night, and he defeated them and pursued them as far as Hovah, which is north of Damascus.
Then they struck the men at the doorway of the house with blindness—from youth to elderly—so that they gave up trying to find the doorway.
So Adonai said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes a man mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, Adonai?
Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind and not see the sun for awhile.” Immediately, cloudiness and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.
“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.
Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was immersed;
For three days he could not see, and he did not eat or drink.
In Damascus the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,
I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who were emissaries before me, either. Instead I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.