The Conversion of Paul
Saul (later Paul) was on the road to Damascus intending to rout the so-called "followers of the Way" in that city. Some distance from the city he is struck blind and completely disoriented. Yet coming out of the intense light which blinded him he hears a voice challenging him to stop persecuting the Christians. Saul, dumbfounded, learns that the voice is that of the living Christ.
Obedient to the instructions given, Saul is led to the home of Ananias where he remains for a time of healing and renewal before he begins his ministry of missionary work. Saul, once the enemy, will become Paul the missionary!
In this panel we see Saul, blind and fallen to the ground, and above him the figure of Jesus, challenging him. The stones on the road in the foreground remind us of the words of the psalmist (Ps. 118: 22), quoted in the Gospel of Matthew in reference to Jesus, "The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all." (Matthew 21: 42).