Acts 26:9 - Bera saman allar útgáfur

“I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

“I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.

In fact, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

“Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

“I admit that I didn’t always hold to this position. For a time I thought it was my duty to oppose this Jesus of Nazareth with all my might. Backed with the full authority of the high priests, I threw these believers—I had no idea they were God’s people!—into the Jerusalem jail right and left, and whenever it came to a vote, I voted for their execution. I stormed through their meeting places, bullying them into cursing Jesus, a one-man terror obsessed with obliterating these people. And then I started on the towns outside Jerusalem.

“So I thought to myself that I had to act in strong opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

“So then, I [once] thought to myself that it was my duty to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.