'Persecuting' in the Bible

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" He replied, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!

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

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

When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.'

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

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.