In context
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.’ 9Those who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the one speaking to me.
