by the Jews.
026:008 Why is it deemed with all of you a thing past belief if God
raises the dead to life?
026:009 "I myself, however, thought it a duty to do many things
in hostility to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.
026:010 And that was how I acted in Jerusalem. Armed with authority
received from the High Priests I shut up many of God's people
in various prisons, and when they were about to be put to death
I gave my vote against them.
026:011 In all the synagogues also I punished them many a time,
and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury I chased
them even to foreign towns.
026:012 "While thus engaged, I was travelling one day to Damascus armed
with authority and a commission from the High Priests,
026:013 and on the journey, at noon, Sir, I saw a light from Heaven--
brighter than the brightness of the sun--shining around me
and around those who were travelling with me.
026:014 We all fell to the ground; and I heard a voice which said to me
in Hebrew, "`Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? You are
finding it painful to kick against the ox-goad.'
026:015 "`Who art Thou, Lord?' I asked. "`I am Jesus whom you
are persecuting,' the Lord replied.
026:016 `But rise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you
for the very purpose of appointing you My servant and My
witness both as to the things you have already seen and as
to those in which I will appear to you.
026:017 I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles,
to whom I send you to open their eyes,
026:018 that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience
to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins