9. “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10. And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
11. Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.
12. “On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.