^3 (A) Saul started making a lot of trouble for the church. He went from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail.

^4 (A) I made trouble for everyone who followed the Lord's Way,^[a] and I even had some of them killed. I had others arrested and put in jail. I didn't care if they were men or women.

⁵ The high priest and all the council members can tell you this is true. They even gave me letters to the Jewish leaders in Damascus, so that I could arrest people there and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.