8Saul, for his part, was approving of the murder of him.+
On that day great persecution+ arose against the congregation that was in Jerusalem; all except the apostles were scattered+ throughout the regions of Ju·deʹa and Sa·marʹi·a.
11 And by punishing them many times in all the synagogues+ I tried to force them to make a recantation; and since I was extremely mad against them, I went so far as to persecuting them even in outside cities.