And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.
But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues;
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,
But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.
Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.