But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, and you have now become betrayers and murderers of Him;

The Conversion of Saul

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

For these reasons some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to murder me.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”