Acts 9:1-2

The Voice

9 Back to Saul—this fuming, raging, hateful man who wanted to kill every last one of the Lord’s disciples: he went to the high priest in Jerusalem ² for authorization to purge all the synagogues in Damascus of followers of the way of Jesus.^[a] His plan was to arrest and chain any of Jesus’ followers—women as well as men—and transport them back to Jerusalem.