Acts 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,
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Psalms 27:12Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.
Acts 8:3and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;
Acts 22:3'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.
1 Corinthians 15:9for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,
Philippians 3:6according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming 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 →