8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?
9. I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10. Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
11. And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.
12. Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the princes of the priests,