“Paul had to begin with the Cross and then retrace his steps backward to Calvary.  To him and to his people, the prophetic connection between suffering and glory were repugnant.  The Jew and the Greek both had a horror of death, to the Greek there was a physical aversion; to the Jew it was a moral shame.  And yet the glorified Christ began Paul’s conversion with the Cross – at that very point where all national characteristics were assailed.  He had to see Christ repersecuted, recrucified, renailed.  And when he asked who it was who questioned, there flashed the vision: ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting’”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen