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

^{10 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} "Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,