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Acts 22:3-14

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3“I am a Jew, just like you. I was born in Tarsus, in Cilicia country, but I grew up here in Jerusalem. I was a young man here, and I learned all our laws. You know that really good teacher called Gamaliel? Well, he taught me all the laws that Moses gave to our grand-fathers. And I wanted to always do everything God says, so I never broke any of those laws. I’m sure that all you mob properly follow those laws too.
4And I used to hurt anyone that followed Jesus, the people called the Jesus Way mob. Whenever I found them I grabbed them and put them in jail. I did that to men and to women too. I wanted to kill those people.
5The big boss of our Jewish ceremonies knows this, and so do the other men that belong to our Jewish council. They gave me letters to take to our Jewish brothers in Damascus. Those letters said I could grab the Christians there, and tie them up, and bring them to Jerusalem, and our leaders here will punish them. So I got some other men to join me and we were going along the road to Damascus.
6We were getting close to Damascus, about the middle of the day, then suddenly a bright light from the sky shone all around me.
7The light was so bright that I fell down to the ground. Then I heard the voice of somebody talking to me from the sky. He said, ‘Saul. Saul. Why are you making trouble for me and hurting me?’
8I asked him, ‘Who are you, boss?’ He said, ‘I am Jesus, from Nazareth. You are making trouble for me and hurting me.’
9The men that were with me saw that very bright light, and they heard that voice, but they didn’t understand anything the voice said to me.
10Then I said, ‘What do you want me to do, boss?’ That boss said, ‘Get up and go into Damascus. A man there will tell you everything that I want you to do.’
11That light was so bright it made me blind. I could not see, so the men with me held my hand and took me into Damascus.
12A man called Ananias lived in that town. He respected God, and he properly followed our Jewish laws. All the Jews living in Damascus said he was a good man.
13He came to me and stood beside me, and he said to me, ‘My friend Saul, you can see again now.’ Then I could see again. I looked up and saw him standing there beside me.
14Then he said, ‘The God that we respect, and the one our grand-fathers respected, he picked you, and he will show you everything he wants you to do. You will see that properly good man, and you will hear him talking to you.

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