Acts 26:11-14 and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹¹ and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns. ¹² I was once going to Damascus on this business, authorized and commissioned by the high priests, ¹³ when on the road at noon, your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven brighter than the sun flash around me and my fellow-travelers. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me? You cannot kick against the goad!'