World English Bible
"I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women."
— Acts 22:4, World English Bible
“And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.”
“and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. ”
“I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,”
“Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women,”
“And I made attacks on this Way, even to death, taking men and women and putting them in prison.”
“And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.”
"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,
"I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'