Acts 9:21

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You.

They went on stoning Stephen as he was calling out and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

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,

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

“And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

“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,

but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, practicing deeds appropriate to repentance.

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.

but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith which he once tried to destroy.”