Where Does It Tell about Paul Persecuting the Church?

Someone inquires, “Where does the Bible tell about Paul persecuting the church?” The inspired historian Luke recorded the persecution by Paul (then known by his Jewish name “Saul”) of the early church (Acts 8:1ff). Immediately preceding Paul’s (Saul’s) conversion, Jesus Christ asked Paul (Saul) why he was persecuting Him (Acts 9:4-5; 22:7-8; 26:14-15); the latter two citations in the previous sentence were related by the apostle Paul about his encounter with our Lord on the road to Damascus before his conversion. The apostle Paul clearly acknowledged that he had persecuted the church in his speech and writings recorded in Acts 26:11, 1 Corinthians 15:9, Galatians 1:13 and 1 Timothy 1:13.

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