“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 26:9 in context
Acts 26:6–12
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Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
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which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
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Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?
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“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
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I 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.
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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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“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
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