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, "Arise, and go into the street which is called straight, and seek in the house of Judas after one called Saul of the city of Tarsus. For behold, he prayeth;

and cast him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, named Saul.

But Saul made havoc of the congregation, entering into every house: and drew out both man and woman, and thrust them into prison.

And he said, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia: nevertheless yet brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and informed diligently in the law of the fathers, and was fervent minded to Godward, as ye all are this same day,

I also verily thought in myself, that I ought to do many contrary things, clean against the name of Jesus of Nazareth:

For I am the least of all the apostles, which am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation of God:

For ye have heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews' ways, how that beyond measure I persecuted the congregation of God, and spoiled it:

and as concerning ferventness I persecuted the congregation, and as touching the righteousness which is in the law, I was unrebukable.

when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:

Breathing

Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.

General references

"Come," say they, "let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."