Acts 26:10

⁸ Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

⁹ I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

¹¹ And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

¹² Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.
KJV: Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
WEB: I also did this 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.
ASV: And this I also did in Jerusalem: and 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.
DARBY: Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote.
BLB: which I also did in Jerusalem. And I also locked up many of the saints in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests; and [on] their being put to death, I cast against [them] a vote.

ÅB: det gjorde jeg også i Jerusalem, og både kastet jeg mange av de hellige i fengsel, etter at jeg hadde fått fullmakt av yppersteprestene, og når de skulle slåes ihjel, gav jeg min stemme til det,
OTB: Og det var akkurat det jeg gjorde i Jerusalem. Med myndighet fra overprestene fengslet jeg mange av de hellige, og da de ble dømt til døden, ga jeg min stemme mot dem.
B1930: det gjorde jeg også i Jerusalem, og både kastet jeg mange av de hellige i fengsel, efterat jeg hadde fått fullmakt av yppersteprestene, og når de skulde slåes ihjel, gav jeg min stemme til det,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
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Acts 9:13–14
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
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Acts 9:21
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
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Acts 22:4–5
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
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Acts 8:1
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.
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Acts 22:19–20
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
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Acts 9:1–2
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
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Acts 7:58
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
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