Acts 26:2-14

²I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defence this day before thee concerning all things of which I am accused by the Jews;

³especially as thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions among the Jews. Wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

⁴My manner of life, then, from my youth, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all Jews know:

⁵and they know, if they are willing to testify, that from the first, according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

⁶And now I stand on trial for the hope of the promise made by God to the fathers,

⁷which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God day and night, hope to obtain; concerning which hope, O king, I am accused by Jews.

⁸Why is it judged incredible with you if God raiseth the dead?

⁹I indeed thought with myself that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

¹⁰Which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints did I myself shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

¹¹And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

¹²And as I was going to Damascus on this business, with authority and a commission from the chief priests,

¹³at mid-day, on the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were journeying with me.

¹⁴And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goads.