Acts 9:1-4
1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
Saul watched Stephen being stoned and asking forgiveness for those killing him, and now went on to hate and murder anyone identifying with or speaking of Jesus the Christ. So he had written permission to round them up, tie them up, and send them up to Jerusalem. But God met him on the way to stop this Way, and shone light on him with the question, "why are you persecuting ME?" By attacking God's people, Saul was attacking the very God he thought he was so zealous for...
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