⁷ I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’

¹⁷ “When I returned to Jerusalem^(A) and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance^{(B) 18} and saw the Lord speaking to me. ‘Quick!’ he said. ‘Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.’

²⁹ The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.