12. “While thus engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
13. at midday along the highway, O sovereign, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me.
14. “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Heḇrew language, ‘Sha’ul, Sha’ul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods.’
15. “And I said, ‘Who are You, Master?’ And He said, ‘I am יהושע, whom you persecute.
16. ‘But rise up, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw and of those which I shall reveal to you,
17. delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I now send you,
18. to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.’
19. “Therefore, Sovereign Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,