8. Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?
9. “Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10. This I 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 cast my vote against them.
11. And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12. “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13. at midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.