A:
Acts of the Apostles tels how Paul was blinded by a light, fell down and heard the voice of Jesus saying, "It hurts you to kick against the goad[or 'pricks']" (Acts 9:5, 26:14). This is also a quotation from the ancient play known as Bacchae by Euripides (d. 406 BCE). The scene has parallels to the play and peculiarly has Jesus quote a Greek proverb to Paul while speaking Aramaic ("in the Hebrew language"). Paul was then taken, blind and helpless to Damascus, where his sight was restored by Ananias and he was taught the gospel.
Paul himself never mentions this episode, and says that after his conversion, he went straight to Arabia. As the account in Acts of the Apostles appears to have been based on the Bacchae(as was its account of Paul's miraculous escape from prison), we have to consider the possibility that Paul did not lose his sight on the road to Damascus and therefore never had it restored.
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