He(A) continued, “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city[a] at the feet of Gamaliel(B) and educated according to the strict view of our patriarchal law. Being zealous for God, just as all of you are today,(C) I persecuted this Way(D) to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,(E) as both the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. After I received letters from them to the brothers, I traveled to Damascus to bring those who were prisoners there to be punished in Jerusalem.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 22:3 Probably Jerusalem, but others think Tarsus

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