Acts 26:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With the authorization of the chief priests, I not only sent many of the saints^[a] to prison, but when they were being condemned to death, I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ In all the synagogues, I tried by inflicting repeated punishments to force them to blaspheme, and I was so enraged with fury against them that I even pursued them to foreign cities.

¹² “On one such occasion, I was traveling to Damascus with the authorization and commission of the chief priests.