Acts 22:6

“Now it happened, as I was going and approaching Damascus, about midday, suddenly from heaven a great light shone about me.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

In Context

5as also the high priest testifies of me, along with the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus in order to bring those who were there, having been bound, to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

7And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

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Cross References

Acts 9:3And as he was going, it came about that he drew near to Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.

Revelation 1:16He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was as the sun shining in its strength.

Matthew Henry on Acts 22:4-22

Paul's First Defence. 3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to… Read the whole commentary →

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