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

"Go at once," said the Lord, "to the 'Straight Street', and ask at Judas's house for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. He is at this moment praying,

And began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul began to devastate the Church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.

"I am a Jew, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, but I was brought up in this city under the teaching of Gamaliel, and educated in accordance with the strict system of our ancestral Law. I was as zealous in God's service as any of you who are here to-day.

I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the Name of Jesus of Nazareth;

For I am the meanest of the Apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of 'Apostle,' because I persecuted the Church of God.

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

As to zeal, I was a persecutor of the Church; as to such righteousness as is due to Law, I proved myself blameless.

though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;