Verse 11
And 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.
The English Revised Version (1885) is superior to the KJV text which seems to say that some of the Christians were caused to blaspheme; "but the tense of the Greek word indicates that Paul failed in this";[22] he only attempted to cause them to commit such a sin.
Even unto foreign cities ... is quite a revealing phrase, indicating a much more extensive range of Saul's persecution, which obviously included operations against the church in many places besides Damascus. Again, the brevity of the sacred narrative is noted.
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