A moment in scripture
Acts 26:10
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.
The surrounding passage
- Acts 26:8
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
- Acts 26:9
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 26:11
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.
- Acts 26:12
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.