Acts 9:1

And Saul, still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the chief priest,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

In Context

2and asked of him letters to Damascus, for the synagogues, that, if he should find any who were of this persuasion, either men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Acts 8:3But Saul attempted to destroy the church; entering every house, and dragging men and women, he delivered them up to prison.

Acts 22:3I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, yet educated in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the strict discipline of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, as you all are this day.

1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Philippians 3:6as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless.

Matthew Henry on Acts 9:1

In this chapter we have, I. The famous story of St. Paul's conversion from being an outrageous persecutor of the gospel of Christ to be an illustrious professor and preacher of it. 1. How he was first awakened and wrought upon by an appearance of Christ himself to him as he was going upon an errand of persecution to Damascus: and what a condition he was in while he lay under the power of those convictions and terrors, ver. 1-9 . 2. How he was baptized by Ananias, by immediate directions from heaven, ver. 10-19 .… Read the whole commentary →

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