^3 (A) Saul started making a lot of trouble for the church. He went from house to house, arresting men and women and putting them in jail.

^4 (A) I made trouble for everyone who followed the Lord's Way,^[a] and I even had some of them killed. I had others arrested and put in jail. I didn't care if they were men or women.

^9 (A) I once thought that I should do everything I could to oppose Jesus from Nazareth. ¹⁰ I did this first in Jerusalem, and with the authority of the chief priests I put many of God's people in jail. I even voted for them to be killed. ¹¹ I often had them punished in our synagogues, and I tried to make them give up their faith. In fact, I was so angry with them, that I went looking for them in foreign cities.