Acts 26:9-12

Thomson(i) 9 as for me I indeed myself thought that I ought to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. 10 And this I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received this authority from the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I gave assent. 11 And in all the synagogues many a time did I, by torments, urge them to blaspheme. And being transported to madness against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities. 12 With which views when I was going to Damascus, with authority, and a commission which I had from the chief priests,