³ But ^(A)Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and ^(B)dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

^4 (A)I persecuted this ^(B)Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons, ⁵ as also ^(C)the high priest and all ^(D)the Council of the elders ^[a]can testify. From them I also ^(E)received letters to ^(F)the brethren, and started off for ^(G)Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem ^[b]as prisoners to be punished.

⁹ “So then, ^(A)I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to ^(B)the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ And this is ^[a]just what I ^(C)did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the ^[b]saints in prisons, having ^(D)received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I ^(E)cast my vote against them. ¹¹ And ^(F)as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being ^(G)furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them ^(H)even to ^[c]foreign cities.