Conversion of Paul the Apostle
![Illumination depicting Paul's conversion, from Livre d'Heures d'Étienne Chevalier (c. 1450–1460), a book of hours by Jean Fouquet now in the Château de Chantilly.](/Images/godic/202502/01/Saint_Paul1609.jpg")
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![Paul on trial before Agrippa (Acts 26), as pictured by Nikolai Bodarevsky, 1875.](/Images/godic/202502/01/Nikolai_Bodarevsky_0011609.jpg")
![The Conversion of Saint Paul, a 1600 painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio.](/Images/godic/202502/01/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio_-_The_Conversion_of_St._Paul_-_WGA041351609.jpg")
The conversion of Paul the Apostle, was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus. It is normally dated to AD 33–36. The phrases Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion and Damascus Christophany, and road to Damascus allude to this event.