Acts 9:1

But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest

Darby Translation

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, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

Acts 8:3But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.

Acts 22:3*I* am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to [the] exactness of the law of [our] fathers, being zealous for God, as *ye* are all this day;

1 Corinthians 15:9For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found 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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