TSK · Acts 8:3

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

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

"I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.