¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

¹⁷ But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;

⁴ and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

³ But Saul laid waste the church, entering into every house, and dragging men and women committed them to prison.

¹ But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

⁹ I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁰ And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

¹¹ And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

¹² Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,