Acts 26:11

World English Bible

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.

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Acts 26:11 in other translations

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

Acts 26:11 · American Standard Version

Acts 26:11 in context

  1. 9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  2. 10I 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.
  3. 11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
  4. 12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
  5. 13at 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.