Daniel 3:26
3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out,
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!”
Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire.
Psalms 66:16
66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God!
I will declare what he has done for me.
Acts 22:3-16
22:3 “I am a Jew,
born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up
in this city, educated with strictness
under
Gamaliel
according to the law of our ancestors,
and was
zealous
for God just as all of you are today.
22:4 I
persecuted this Way
even to the point of death,
tying up
both men and women and putting
them in prison,
22:5 as both 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 was on my way
to make arrests there and bring
the prisoners
to Jerusalem
to be punished.
22:6 As
I was en route and near Damascus,
about noon a very bright
light from heaven
suddenly flashed
around me.
22:7 Then I
fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
22:8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’
22:9 Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand
the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
22:10 So I asked,
‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Get up
and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything
that you have been designated
to do.’
22:11 Since I could not see because of
the brilliance
of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of
those who were with me.
22:12 A man named Ananias,
a devout man according to the law,
well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,
22:13 came
to me and stood beside me
and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’
And at that very moment
I looked up and saw him.
22:14 Then he said, ‘The God of our ancestors
has already chosen
you to know his will, to see
the Righteous One,
and to hear a command
from his mouth,
22:15 because you will be his witness
to all people
of what you have seen and heard.
22:16 And now what are you waiting for?
Get up,
be baptized, and have your sins washed away,
calling on his name.’
Acts 26:9-16
26:9 Of course,
I myself was convinced
that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
26:10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received
from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote
against them when they were sentenced to death.
26:11 I punished
them often in all the synagogues
and tried to force
them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged
at them, I went to persecute
them even in foreign cities.
26:12 “While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,
26:13 about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.
26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’
26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
26:16 But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance as a servant and witness to the things you have seen and to the things in which I will appear to you.