American Standard Version
"I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. "
— Acts 26:9, American Standard Version
“I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”
“"I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”
“Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.”
“And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”
“For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”
“I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”
And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;
unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
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,