Acts 22:6-17

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.

¹⁵He wants you to tell everyone everywhere that you saw him and heard him.

¹⁶So now you can stop waiting. Stand up, and pray to our leader, Jesus, and ask God not to punish you for all the bad things you did. After that I will baptise you.’ That’s what Ananias said to me.”

¹⁷Paul kept talking to that mob. He said, “After that I went back to Jerusalem. One day I went to God’s ceremony house. While I was praying there, I had like a dream.