Acts 22:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ I persecuted this Way up to the point of death by binding both men and women and putting them in prison, ⁵ as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. From them I also received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I went there in order to bind those who were there and to bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Paul Tells of His Conversion

⁶ ‘While I was on my way and approaching Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me.