They were only hearing, “The one who once persecuted us is now proclaiming the good news of the faith he once tried to destroy.”

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.

All who heard him were amazed and were saying, “Is this not the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners to the chief priests?”