5since they have known me for a long time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
6And now I stand here being judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
7to which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is because of this hope that I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa.
8Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
9“However, I myself thought that I had to perpetrate many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Natsorean;
10I actually did this in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
11Yes, I punished them often in every synagogue, trying to force them to blaspheme; I was so excessively enraged against them that I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12“It was on one of those journeys, as I was going to Damascus with authority and a commission from the chief priests,
13at midday, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun, blazing around me and those traveling with me.
14Well we all fell to the ground and I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language: ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said: ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
16Now get up and stand on your feet; because I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things you have seen and of the things I will reveal to you,
Acts 26
Acts 26:5-16