Acts 9:1
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
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Psalms 27:12Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Acts 8:3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
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 →