Acts 22:19

New Century Version

But I said, ‘Lord, they know that in every synagogue I put the believers in jail and beat them.

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Be careful of people, because they will arrest you and take you to court and whip you in their synagogues.

I persecuted the people who followed the Way of Jesus, and some of them were even killed. I arrested men and women and put them in jail.

Saul was also trying to destroy the church, going from house to house, dragging out men and women and putting them in jail.

In Jerusalem Saul was still threatening the followers of the Lord by saying he would kill them. So he went to the high priest