TSK · Acts 8:3

But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;