10 (A)Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: for many of the Saints I shut up in prison, having received authority of the High Priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my [a]sentence.

11 And I punished them throughout all the Synagogues, and [b]compelled them to blaspheme and being more mad against them, I persecuted them, even unto strange cities.

12 At which time, even as I went to (B)Damascus with authority, and commission from the high Priests,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 26:10 I consented to, and allowed of their doing: for he was not a judge.
  2. Acts 26:11 By extreme punishment.

10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people(A) in prison,(B) and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.(C) 11 Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished,(D) and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.

12 “On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

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