Acts 9:1-5

¹And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,

²did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

³And in the going, he came nigh to Damascus, and suddenly there shone round about him a light from the heaven,

⁴and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

⁵And he said, 'Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'