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 asked him  for  letters  to  Damascus,  that  he  might  bring  the disciples whom  he  found  there  prisoners  to  Jerusalem.

As he  journeyed  on  the  road to  Damascus,  suddenly  a great light from  heaven  shone  around  him. Struck as  if  by  lightning, he fell  to  the  ground. At the  same  moment,  he  heard  a voice saying: “Saul,  Saul,  why  dost  thou  persecute  Me?”  Saul  asked: ‘Who art  Thou,  Lord?”  The  voice  replied: “I  am  Jesus,  whom thou dost  persecute.”  Trembling  with  fear,  and  much  astonished, Saul said:  “Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  have  me  to  do?”  The  Lord replied: “Arise, and  go  into  the  city,  and  there  it  shall  be  told thee what  thou  must  do.”

Saul rose  up  from  the  ground  and  opened  his  eyes,  but  he had  lost  his  sight. His companions  then  took  him  by  the