As I was traveling and coming near Damascus, about noon, a great light from the sky suddenly blazed all around me.
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4I persecuted this Way to the death, arresting men and women alike and throwing them into prison, 5as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. It was from them that I received letters to our brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way there to bring those people back to Jerusalem in chains, to be punished. 6As I was traveling and coming near Damascus, about noon, a great light from the sky suddenly blazed all around me. 7I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ 8I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, the one you are persecuting.’
