TSK · Acts 9:1

Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.