ye.

Acts 22:3-5
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the Law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today. . . .

Acts 26:4, 5
Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem. . . .

how.

Acts 8:1, 3
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen's death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. . . .

Acts 9:1, 2, 13, 14, 21, 26
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out threats of murder against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest . . .

Acts 22:4, 5
I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison, . . .

Acts 26:9-11
So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Philippians 3:6
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness under the Law, faultless.

1 Timothy 1:13
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.