But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.
For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in thee.
And all who heard him were amazed, and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called on this name? And he has come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests.”
Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?
Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the rulers;