6While I was still on my way, just as I was getting close to Damascus, about midday, suddenly there flashed from the heavens a great light all around me.
7I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
8‘Who are you, Lord?’ I replied. Then the voice said ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’
9The men with me saw the light, but did not hear the speaker's voice.
10Then I said ‘What am I to do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’ The Lord said to me, ‘and there you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’
11In consequence of that dazzling light I could not see, but my companions held me by the hand, until I reached Damascus.
12There a man named Ananias, a strict observer of our Law, well spoken of by all the Jewish inhabitants, came to see me.
13Standing close to me, he said ‘Saul, my brother, recover your sight.’ And then and there I recovered my sight and looked up at him.
14Then he said ‘The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the righteous one, and to hear words from his lips;
15for you will be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard.
16And now why wait any longer, Be baptised at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his name.’
17After my return to Jerusalem, while I was praying one day in the Temple, I fell into a trance,
Acts 22
Acts 22:6-17