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"I most assuredly thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
10
This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.
11
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
12
"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,