Acts 9:1
And Saul yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of ye Lord, went vnto the hie Priest,
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Psalms 27:12Giue me not vnto the lust of mine aduersaries: for there are false witnesses risen vp against me, and such as speake cruelly.
Acts 8:3But Saul made hauocke of the Church, and entred into euery house, and drewe out both men and women, and put them into prison.
Acts 22:3I am verely a man, which am a Iew, borne in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought vp in this citie at the feete of Gamaliel, and instructed according to the perfect maner of the Lawe of the Fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the Apostles, which am not meete to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.
Philippians 3:6Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.
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 →