“ ‘Lord,’ I replied, ‘these people know how I used to go from one synagogue to another beating the believers and putting them in prison.
I attacked the followers of the Way of Jesus and even sent many of them to their deaths. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison.
Be careful who you trust! You’ll be turned over to the local courts and whipped in the synagogues.
But Saul began to destroy the church. He went from house to house and dragged out men and women and put them in prison.
Meanwhile, Saul kept saying he was going to kill the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest