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Acts 26:9

American Standard Version

I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Acts 26:9 in other translations

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

Acts 26:9 · World English Bible

Acts 26:9 in context

  1. 7unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
  2. 8Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
  3. 9I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  4. 10And this I also did in Jerusalem: and 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.
  5. 11And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.