¹⁹ I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

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

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

³ But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

¹ But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

⁹ "I myself most assuredly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁰ This I also did in Jerusalem. 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 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹² "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,