10 And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death.

11 I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

12 While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,

Acts 26:10-12, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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