Acts 9:1

And Saul was still full of threats and deadly hatred against the disciples of our Lord.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 he requested that a letter from the high priest might be given him unto Damascus to the synagogues; that if he should find persons pursuing this course, men or women, he might bind and bring them to Jerusalem.

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Cross References

Acts 8:3And Saul persecuted the church of God, entering houses, and dragging forth men and women and committing them to prison.

Acts 22:3I am a man who am a Jew; and I was born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but was brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and instructed perfectly in the law of our fathers; and I was zealous for God, as ye also all are.

1 Corinthians 15:9I am the least of the legates; and am not worthy to be called a legate; because I persecuted the church of God.

Philippians 3:6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; and as to the righteousness of the law, I was without fault.

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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