First, we learn that Saul ​ — the man who approvingly witnessed the stoning of Stephen — ​ “still breathing threat and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any whom he found who belonged to The Way, both men and women. ”
תחילה, שאול — האיש שצפה בסקילת סטפנוס וגם הסכים למעשה — עדיין ’ הפיח איומים ורצח נגד תלמידי האדון.