¹¹ And ^(A)I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them ^(B)blaspheme, and ^(C)in raging fury against them I ^(D)persecuted them even to foreign cities.

¹⁹ And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another ^(A)I imprisoned and ^(B)beat those who believed in you.

^45 (A)But ^(B)when the Jews^[a] saw the crowds, they were filled with ^(C)jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, ^(D)reviling him.

¹⁷ Beware of men, for ^(A)they will deliver you over to courts and flog you ^(B)in their synagogues,

⁵ as ^(A)the high priest and ^(B)the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to ^(C)the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.

The Conversion of Saul

9 But Saul, ^(A)still ^(B)breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to ^(C)the high priest

¹⁶ but was rebuked for his own transgression; ^(A)a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

⁷ Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable ^(A)name by which you were called?

^28 (A)Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy ^(B)on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one ^(C)who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned ^(D)the blood of the covenant ^(E)by which he was sanctified, and has ^(F)outraged the Spirit of grace?