Acts 9:1

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

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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 begged of him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any that were of the Way, either men or women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Acts 8:3But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

Acts 22:3"I am a Jew," he said, "born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strict manner of the Law of our forefathers, ardent for God, even as you all are this day.

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

Philippians 3:6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through 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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