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Acts 26:10
“This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.”
Verse in context — Acts 26
8
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
9
I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
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Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12
Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
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