I said, ‘Lord, they know that I went from synagogue to synagogue imprisoning and flogging those who believed in you;
In context
17After I returned to Jerusalem, while I was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance 18and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry, leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’ 19I said, ‘Lord, they know that I went from synagogue to synagogue imprisoning and flogging those who believed in you; 20and when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I was standing there giving my approval, and looking after the coats of the men who killed him.’ 21And he said to me, ‘Go, for I am sending you far away, to the Gentiles.’”
