Acts 9:3

"And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about him. light out of heaven"And as he journeyed" The distance from Jerusalem to Damascus was about 150 miles and would have probably taken. week. "We are not told the method of travel Paul used in making this journey. Artists have pictured him on horseback, camelback, or in. chariot, but the fact that after the Lord appeared to him and they led him by the hand on into Damascus, indicates that they probably were on foot" (Reese p. 351). "Drew nigh unto Damascus" This was an oasis surrounded by desert. Paul later says that this happened around noon (Acts 22:6). "Shone about him. light out of heaven" Which was brighter than the sun (Acts 26:13).

Various critics of the Bible and those who seek to eliminate and explain away all the miraculous elements of the Biblical account, argue that the light was. flash of lightning, or in the heat of his anger and the heat of the desert he was overcome by sunstroke, but these explanations must be rejected. It was not. natural event, for the light was brighter than the sun at noon in the Syrian desert. It was not sunstroke because those traveling with him were driven to their knees (Acts 26:14 "we had all fallen to the ground"). "Here is another indication that Paul did not suffer sunstroke. If he only had that, how is the fact that all fell to be explained?" (Reese p. 352).