Bible Verses About Paul: His vision and conversion

He was on the road and nearing Dammesek, when suddenly a light from heaven flashed all around him.

Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?”

“Sir, who are you?” he asked. “I am Yeshua, and you are persecuting me.

But get up, and go into the city, and you will be told what you have to do.”

The men traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

They helped Sha’ul get up off the ground; but when he opened his eyes, he could see nothing. So, leading him by the hand, they brought him into Dammesek.

For three days he remained unable to see, and he neither ate nor drank.

There was a talmid in Dammesek, Hananyah by name; and in a vision the Lord said to him, “Hananyah!” He said, “Here I am, Lord.”

The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to Straight Street, to Y’hudah’s house; and ask for a man from Tarsus named Sha’ul; for he is praying,

and in a vision he has seen a man named Hananyah coming in and placing his hands on him to restore his sight.”

But Hananyah answered, “Lord, many have told me about this man, how much harm he has done to your people in Yerushalayim;

and here he has a warrant from the head cohanim to arrest everyone who calls on your name.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name to the Goyim, even to their kings, and to the sons of Isra’el as well.

For I myself will show him how much he will have to suffer on account of my name.”

So Hananyah left and went into the house. Placing his hands on him, he said, “Brother Sha’ul, the Lord — Yeshua, the one who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here — has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh.”

In that moment, something like scales fell away from Sha’ul’s eyes; and he could see again. He got up and was immersed;

then he ate some food and regained his strength. Sha’ul spent some days with the talmidim in Dammesek,

and immediately he began proclaiming in the synagogues that Yeshua is the Son of God.

All who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Isn’t he the man who in Yerushalayim was trying to destroy the people who call on this name? In fact, isn’t that why he came here, to arrest them and bring them back to the head cohanim?”

But Sha’ul was being filled with more and more power and was creating an uproar among the Jews living in Dammesek with his proofs that Yeshua is the Messiah.

I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.

The cohen hagadol and the whole Sanhedrin can also testify to this. Indeed, after receiving letters from them to their colleagues in Dammesek, I was on my way there in order to arrest the ones in that city too and bring them back to Yerushalayim for punishment.

“As I was traveling and approaching Dammesek, around noon, suddenly a brilliant light from heaven flashed all around me!

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?’

I answered, ‘Sir, who are you?’ ‘I am Yeshua from Natzeret,’ he said to me, ‘and you are persecuting me!’