I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
Paul stood silent until given leave to speak, for the best speakers are not the most forward. Here Agrippa granted him what the Jews would scarcely allow: full liberty to answer for himself. His stretched hand showed no fear, only earnestness and command of himself; he needed no advocate, but only the chance to honour his cause by defending it plainly.
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Commenting on Acts 26:1-11
I beat them in the synagogues and forced them to curse Christ, to deny He was the Messiah and call Him accursed. My malice was boundless. I hunted them even to foreign cities, scattering these Christians so far that they fled beyond Israel's borders, though only Damascus itself records my pursuit.
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I tortured them in the synagogues, straining with all my might to break them from faith in Jesus and make them deny He was the Messiah. I raged like a madman with ungovernable fury. Only a madman persecutes men for their faith, and I was that madman, carrying my violence even to foreign cities to root them out entirely.
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