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Joseph Smith—History 1:16 · Acts 26:13

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Pearl of Great Price Joseph Smith—History 1:16
"I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me"
New Testament Acts 26:13
"At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me"

Shared words: above the brightness of the sun

The run 'above the brightness of the sun' stands at exactly three corpus verses (recounted 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze; the third is D&C 110:3, 'his countenance shone above the brightness of the sun', another first-person theophany in this same account's voice): the account's pillar of light, and Paul's Damascus-road light as he recounts it in his defense before King Agrippa. The account itself invokes that very scene eight verses later, as self-comparison rather than attribution: 'I felt much like Paul, when he made his defense before King Agrippa, and related the account of the vision he had when he saw a light, and heard a voice' (Joseph Smith—History 1:24). The pillar-of-light passage itself (Joseph Smith—History 1:16) carries no source attribution for its wording; where the account does name the book of Acts, it is Moroni's later recitation ('He quoted also the third chapter of Acts, twenty-second and twenty-third verses', Joseph Smith—History 1:40), which cites Acts 3, not the Acts 26 language paired here. So the pairing is the wiki's (contrast ae-w1-01, where the account names book, chapter, and verse at the point of quotation and carries asserted_by: source). Divergences reported: Acts places the light at midday, 'round about' Paul and his company; the account has the pillar descend gradually upon the one praying. Registered at the 2026-07-10 editorial review (provenance in verification-log.md).