Acts 9:1

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Acts 9:1

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

Saul

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Saul

The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called the Straight Street, and ask at the house of Judas for a man named Saul, from Tarsus, for he is there praying.

and dragged him out of the city and stoned him, the witnesses throwing down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.

For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,