I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
And then he will reply 'I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however lowly, you failed to do it to me.'
"Why, what harm has he done?" he asked. But they kept shouting furiously: "Let him be crucified!"
While I was still on my way, just as I was getting close to Damascus, about mid-day, suddenly there flashed from the heavens a great light all round me.
'Who are you, Lord?' I replied. Then the voice said 'I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.'
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him--"Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"
though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;