ACCORDING TO SAUL:ACTS OF THE APOSTLES CHAPTER 26 VERSES 12-18 

12″On one such occasion I was traveling toward Damascus armed with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 13 On this journey, Your majesty, I saw a light more brilliant than the sun shining in the sky at midday. It surrounded me and those who were traveling with me. 14)All of us fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew,’Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard for you to kick against the goad.’ 15)I said, at that, ‘who are you, sir,?’ and the Lord answered; ‘I am that Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16)Get up now and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to designate you as my servant and as a witness to what you have seen of me ans what you will see of me. 17)I have delivered you from this people and from the nations, 18)to open the eyes of those to whom I am sending you, to turn them from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God; that through their faith in me they may obtain the forgiveness of their sins and a portion among God’s people.’