Acts 9:1-3

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them in shackles to Jerusalem.

Now as he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;