³ Saul, though, began to deal outrageously with the congregation. Invading one house after another and, dragging out both men and women, he would turn them over to prison.+

¹³ YOU, of course, heard about my conduct formerly in Ju′da·ism,+ that to the point of excess I kept on persecuting+ the congregation of God and devastating it,+

²³ they only used to hear: “The man that formerly persecuted+ us is now declaring the good news about the faith which he formerly devastated.”+