Acts 26:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ That’s just what I was doing in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests, I put many of the Lord’s people in prison. I agreed that they should die. ¹¹ I often went from one synagogue to another to have them punished. I tried to force them to speak evil things against Jesus. All I wanted to do was hurt them. I even went looking for them in the cities of other lands.

¹² “On one of these journeys I was on my way to Damascus. I had the authority and commission of the chief priests.