American Standard Version
"Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, "
— Acts 26:12, American Standard Version
“Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,”
“"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,”
““While doing this very thing, as I was going to Damascus with authority and complete power from the chief priests,”
“Whereupon, when I was going to Damascus with authority and permission of the chief priest,”
“Then, when I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and orders of the chief priests,”
“Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,”
I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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.
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.
Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.
And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.