Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

and requested from him letters [of authority] to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he should find any who were of the Way, both men or women, he might bring them, having been bound, to Jerusalem.

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name."

which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.

"In which [pursuits] also, as I traveled to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

Now it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,

And when they heard that, they entered the temple about daybreak and were teaching. Now when the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council, even all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison for them to be brought.

And when it became day, the council of the elders of the people, the chief priests and scribes, came together and led Him into their council, saying,

"Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now."

For I could wish that I myself to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my countrymen according to the flesh,

who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;