Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).

(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.

but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.

Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest

he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus.

And the Lord said to him, "Go away to the street called 'The Straight Street,' and ask at the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus called Saul. He is praying at this very moment,

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;

But their plot came to the ears of Saul, and, although they kept watch on the gates day and night in order to make away with him,

So Barnabas went off to Tarsus to look for Saul,

This they carried out, sending their contribution to the presbyters by Barnabas and Saul.

After fulfilling their commission, Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, bringing with them John who is surnamed Mark.

Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

he belonged to the suite of the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and demanded to hear the word of God.

So Saul (who is also called Paul), filled with the holy Spirit, looked steadily at him

Then it was that they begged for a king, and God gave them forty years of Saul, the son of Kish, who belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.

I dropped to the earth and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'

came to me and standing beside me said, 'Saul, my brother, regain your sight!' The same moment I regained my sight and looked up at him.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? You hurt yourself by kicking at the goad.'