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.
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.
“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests, at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.