Acts 9:5

“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.  “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 1st & 2nd written by Pastor Bob Brown:

During that exchange with Jesus, Paul gets a new commission: to bring the Gospel to the pagan world, that is, to Gentiles, the hated goyim. Nothing could have been more off the beaten path for this set-in-his-ways Pharisee, bent on purifying Judaism of its paganism.

With his fresh vocation, Paul had to let go of all of that. "You are," Jesus was telling Paul, "my servant and witness to the Gentiles. Everything else amounts to nothing compared to this vocation." An undiscovered life lay before him, and the old life was laid in its grave at the cross of the risen Christ. Life would not be the same for Paul ever again.  [BN,10]

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