World English Bible

Acts 26:9-12 World English Bible (WEB)

9. “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

10. This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

11. Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

12. “Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,