³ But Saul was ravaging the church by entering house after house; dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison.^(A)

¹⁴ and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name.”^(A)

²¹ All who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem among those who invoked this name? And has he not come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?”^(A)

¹³ You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it.^(A)