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

Then the Lord said to him, Arise, go into the street called Strait, and inquire at the house of Judas for one named Saul a man of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

and dragging him out of the city, stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, named Saul.

But Saul ravaged the church, entering into the houses, and dragging men and women, cast them into prison.

I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but educated in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed accurately in the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as ye all are this day:

I indeed then thought in myself, that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarean.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For ye have heard of my former manner of life, when I professed Judaism, that in the most outrageous manner I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

respecting the law, a Pharisee; with regard to zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolently violent, But I was admitted to mercy, for I did it ignorantly in unbelief;