Acts 26:10-12

Good News Translation

¹⁰ That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the chief priests and put many of God's people in prison; and when they were sentenced to death, I also voted against them. ¹¹ Many times I had them punished in the synagogues and tried to make them deny their faith. I was so furious with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Paul Tells of His Conversion^(A)

¹² “It was for this purpose that I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests.