Acts 9:1

Do not give me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.

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,

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

“And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.

“And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

The Conversion of Saul