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"^[g]While so engaged ^(u)as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

at midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, ^[h]brighter than the sun, shining all around me and those who were journeying with me.

And when we had ^(v)all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ^[i](w)Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? ^[j]It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?' And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

But get up and ^(x)stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to ^(y)appoint you a ^(z)minister and ^(aa)a witness not only to the things which you have ^[k]seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you;

^(ab)rescuing you ^(ac)from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

to ^(ad)open their eyes so that they may turn from ^(ae)darkness to light and from the dominion of ^(af)Satan to God, that they may receive ^(ag)forgiveness of sins and an ^(ah)inheritance among those who have been sanctified by ^(ai)faith in Me.'