Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Do not abandon me to the desire of my foes; malicious and lying witnesses have risen against me.
They threw him out of the city, and began to stone him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment. Philip in Samaria.
For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
For you heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it,
in zeal I persecuted the church, in righteousness based on the law I was blameless. Righteousness from God.
I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief.