Acts 22:5-16

5as the kohen gadol and all the council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers, and I went to Damascus to bring back to Jerusalem even those who were there in chains—to be punished.

6“But it happened that as I was traveling and drawing near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly flashed all around me.

7I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’

8“I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said to me, ‘I am Yeshua ha-Natzrati, whom you are persecuting.’

9“Now those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

10So I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ “And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up, and go to Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’

11“But since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.

12Then a certain Ananias—a devout man according to the Torah, well spoken of by all the Jewish people living there—

13came to me. Standing before me, he said to me, ‘Brother Saul, look up!’ In that very moment, I looked and saw him!

14“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers handpicked you to know His will—to see the Righteous One and to hear an utterance from His mouth.

15For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

16Now why are you waiting? Get up and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on His Name.’