[9] I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. [10] Which thing also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice [11] And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. [12] Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission the chief priests, [13] At midday, O king, in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about and them which journeyed with [14] all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice unto saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, why persecutest thou it is hard to kick against the pricks. [15] And I said, Who Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. [16] But rise, and stand upon feet: for for to make a minister and a witness both of these things which and of those things in the which [17] Delivering from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send [18] To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in