And the Lord said to him, "Arise and go to the street called Straight, and seek out in the house of Judas, a man named Saul, of Tarsus; for behold, he is praying.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many wicked things he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem;

and when he received food, he was strengthened. Now Saul was with the disciples in Damascus three days.

And all those who heard were astounded, and were saying, "Is this not the one who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might take them having been bound, to the chief priests?"

and casting him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes beside the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul was doing injury to the church, going in from house to house, and dragging away both men and women, and committing them to prison.

"I am indeed a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our forefathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.

I, who persecuted this Way to death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women,

Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;

And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even as far as to foreign cities.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For you have heard of my former conduct at one time in Judaism, that beyond measure I used to persecute the church of God, and I was devastating it.

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

I, who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I was shown mercy because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.