Acts 9:1

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Summary

Acts 9:1

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

Saul

Breathing

Psalm 27:12

General references

Psalm 83:4

Bible References

Saul

And the Lord [said] to him, "Get up, go to the street called 'Straight' and in the house of Judas look for {a man named Saul from Tarsus}. For behold, he is praying,

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering {house after house}, he dragged off both men and women [and] delivered [them] to prison.

"I am a Jewish man born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law received from our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all [of] you are today.

Indeed, I myself thought it was necessary to do many [things] opposed to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

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

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless.

[although I] was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, but I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Breathing

Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.

General references

They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."