Acts 9:1
But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
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Psalms 27:12Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
Acts 8:3But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Acts 22:3I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.
1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.
Philippians 3:6In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
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 →