And I said: 'Lord, they know that I am beating and enclosing in prison, throughout every synagogue, those who have believed in you.
But beware of men. For they will hand you over to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.
I persecuted this Way, even unto death, binding and delivering into custody both men and women,
Then Saul was laying waste to the Church by entering throughout the houses, and dragging away men and women, and committing them to prison.
Now Saul, still breathing threats and beatings against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,