Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.
When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.
“But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in synagogue after synagogue I had those who believed in You imprisoned and beaten.
They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests? ”
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.
Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?