Acts 26:4-16
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4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
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5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
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7 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
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8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
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9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
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11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
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12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
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13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
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14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
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16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;