TSK · Acts 8:3

¶ And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

¶ I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, 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 conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.