Acts 26:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ ‘Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.^{[a] 10} And that is what I did in Jerusalem; with authority received from the chief priests, I not only locked up many of the saints in prison, but I also cast my vote against them when they were being condemned to death. ¹¹ By punishing them often in all the synagogues I tried to force them to blaspheme; and since I was so furiously enraged at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.