'Persecuting' in the Bible

And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he [said], "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting!

and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

And I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you are persecuting.'

And [when] we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Aramaic language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? [It is] hard for you to kick against the goads!'

So I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

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,

and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,"

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