Acts 26:11

My enemies have reproached me all day long; Those who ridicule me swear against me.

“But beware of men, for they will deliver you over to the courts and flog you in their synagogues;

“They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he was delivering them into prison.

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons,

“And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.

“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.