Acts 9:5

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

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and recounted to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean.”

“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,

and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.