Acts 26:8

4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

7which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

8Why is it judged incredible with you if God does raise the dead?

9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

10I 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.

11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,