The Road to Damascus: Acts 9:1-19

Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. Still. The word connects to Stephen's death. Saul hadn't stopped. Breathing out threats—the Greek suggests snorting like an angry animal. Murderous—not metaphor but intention. The disciples were prey and Saul was hunting. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.…