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

And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named 'Straight,' and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul.

dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.

"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

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

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how furiously I used to persecute the church of God, and how I kept seeking to root it out;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.